"Google in particular has come close to realizing our nightmare scenario from 1998, a vertically integrated Internet controlled by a single monopoly player. Google runs its own physical network, builds phone handsets, develops a laptop and phone operating system, makes the world’s most widely-used browser, runs a private DNS system, PKI certificate authority, has photographed nearly all the public spaces in the world, and stores much of the world’s email."

https://tinyurl.com/ybo3jtct

@Antanicus

small consolation: it wasn't a government! :\

also, I mean, people DID kind of groove into the cyberpunk dystopia and all, so, like -- yay for the upcoming aesthetic? :\

sigh