This is one of those ideas that strikes me as adjacent to e.g. "The Singularity" and one could perhaps get to, "what if it's already here?" Obviously this is a

This is one of those ideas that strikes me as adjacent to e.g. "The Singularity" and one could perhaps get to, "what if it's already here?" Obviously this is a little 'out-there,' but I find interesting something like the idea of -- Microsoft, at one time the biggest tech company ever by far, "evolved itself" into something that could control human minds.