“On the surface, everything was rosy. Technological utopia hyper-connected the world in a way no-one could have imagined. No longer was the web just for academi

“On the surface, everything was rosy. Technological utopia hyper-connected the world in a way no-one could have imagined. No longer was the web just for academics and the super 1337, it made the sum of human knowledge available to anyone, and now that smartphones became ubiquitous, it could be accessed anywhere. Wikipedia, gave everyone superhuman knowledge, Google allowed us to find and access it in a moment and Facebook gave us the ability to communicate with everyone we had ever known, for free. However, underneath all this, there was one problem buried just below the glittering facade. Google knew what they were doing. So were Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft. So did some punks, since 1984.”