You're right in that the genie will not go back to the bottle, but we have other models for aggregating social data / building networks on the horizon that don'

You're right in that the genie will not go back to the bottle, but we have other models for aggregating social data / building networks on the horizon that don't involve a central entity (state or otherwise) so the future is likely to look very different and I'll bet very "weird" to us now.