\n\nGoing from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 worked so well we thought we could push it further, but we ended up with \u201cThe Internet of Things\u201d"}Did anyone notice how quickly the internet turned into a\nLovecraftian horror scenario?
\nLike we\u2019ve got this dimension right next to ours, that\nextends across the entire planet, and it is just brimming with nightmares. We\nhave spambots, viruses, ransomware, this endless legion of malevolent entities\nthat are blindly probing us for weaknesses, seeking only to corrupt, to thieve,\nto destroy.
\nAdd onto that the corrupted ones themselves, humans who\u2019ve\nabandoned morality and given up faces to hunt other people, jeering them,\nlashing out, seeing how easy it is to kill something you can\u2019t touch or see or\nsmell. They\u2019ll corrupt anything they think could be a vessel for their message\nand they\u2019ll jabber madly at any who question them. Their chittering haunts\nevery corner of the internet. They are not unlike the spambots in some ways.
\nAdd on top of that the arcane magisters, who are forever\nworking at the cracks between our world and the world we made. Some of them do\nit for fun, some of them do it for wealth, others do it for the power of\nnations unwise enough to trust them. There are mages who work to defend against\nthis particular evil, but they are mad prophets, and their advice is almost\nnever heeded, even by those who keep them as protection.
\nAll people know several spells to use the internet. Facebook\nasks you for the magic words to log in, so does your email, so does your\ntwitter and on and on. The spells are words or a gesture with the hand, some\nuse the colour of your eyes, or the shape of your finger. Our chief of security\njoked about requiring users to give a drop of blood before they could log in.\nMany do not understand the humour of mages.
\nThe cracks between the two are breaking. IP cameras filled\nour world with eyes and the magisters learned how to open almost all of them.\nWe all carry magic slabs of glass that if you hold it up to your ear can sing to\nyou with a loved one\u2019s voice, but if you look at it with your eyes, can show\nyou a corrupted human with bleeding orange skin scream the profane with a\nthousand voices. The other day I saw someone hack a moving vehicle. At one\npoint they made it stop. At another they made it so it couldn\u2019t stop. Some of our best and brightest are going to create\nan army of four winged bats hovering throughout every city and we are going to\nconnect them directly to the dimension where the nightmares live.
\nI\u2019m not saying it\u2019s all bad, but I am saying Cthulhu lies\ndeathless dreaming in this web we built him and he is waking up.
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