The Internet was a brilliant idea. To enable computers to talk to each other in the event of a nuclear holocaust (as with most things the best inventions come out of war)
The tech geeks got hold of it once the military let go and invented HTML, Java, C++ and ways that computers could talk as one. Websites began to appear.
Web 2.0 happened and websites became personalised and individual and people could share music and films and news and pornography without paying for any of it.
Then governments became concerned that ideas that could spark revolution and could be shared worldwide at an instant. Then corporations clicked that Data would be the next currency and what better way to harvest it than to let people give it away free.
And then Facebook became a database of people of Orwellian proportions, Google became a database of peoples desires and Twitter became a database of peoples thoughts and words
And now it starts to scare people, what has been given away so free is now in the hands of the very people that don't deserve to have it in the first place.
Suddenly people start deleting accounts, internet footprints, email accounts, photos, purchase records and learn Linux and Ubuntu and how to remove software from smart phones
And then realise its all too late...
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