In Deus Ex (2000), megaplutocrat Bob Page deploys a new internet routing protocol he names Aquinas.
The effect of the protocol is to centralize all internet traffic to pass through Page’s routing infrastructure, where it can be subjected to surveillance and manipulation.
At the time this seemed so shortsighted and inefficient to me as to be unrealistic.
Yet the emerging vision of AI-enabled products has the EXACT same shape. Your every activity routed and influenced through a third party
