Hardly a ‘hive mind’ situation when everything governments all over the world and big corporations have shown, time and again, that they will step up the surveillance any chance they get, try to get away with it, and if they do (which happens all too often), step it up yet again, rinse and repeat.

But you follow your optimistic way of view, at least you’ll be happier than most of us until you see how right we’ve been all along.