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The thing you have to understand about the societies we are living is now is that the machines have already taken complete control of them.

They don't yet think, but they already have all the power.

Everywhere you go and everything you do is either being manipualted by computers or is being logged by them.

Traffic lights, electricity, bills, commerse, buying tickets, paying tickets, using the internet, using a cellphone, almost everything you do is in some way in the hands of computing systems.

Which means a clever enough computer hacker could amass a whole lot of control over time if he were dedicated enough and knew exactly what it was he were after.

For more information about how our lived are logged by computing systems and how that can be a very bad thing read 'Idoru' by William Gibson.