I don't blame you. Because quite honestly; the government has given itself unlimited access to the most powerful tool/weapon/technology in human history.

I mean the ability to see and hear everything that goes on across the entire planet, to type a name into a computer and see plain as day the secrets of, track the movements of, and hear the conversations of any person anywhere in the world at any time is the stuff of fiction. Its a superweapon. It's the information equivalent of the Death Star.

This is stuff that authors only ever even imagined as being possible with magic and its here, now, looming like the tower of Isengard over some desert in the Midwest.

I don't blame you for believing that because what we're talking about here is a supreme power. It is the holy grail of surveillance and subversion in the same way that cold fusion is the holy grail of energy, or warp 10 is the holy grail of transportation, or the singularity is the holy grail of computing.

And now that it's here there is simply no way that someone, somewhere is not going to use it for personal, financial and political gain because this - thing - that they've built is frankly above the laws of man.

The people of the Earth and their leaders, the United States Congress, even the people who think that they control this thing can all talk about abolishing it but it will never, ever happen.

The minute they switched this thing on a new chapter in human history began; just as it did when Oppenheimer ignited atomic fire in yet another desert in the Midwestern United States.

Just as there was on that day: there's just no going back from here.

Edit: Thanks for Gold. Wish it was under better circumstances..