With the invention of the internet we have quickly descended into a situation of manipulative surveillance where every system we use is recording everything that we do and using it to make us do things that we wouldn’t otherwise want to do. All of this has been made possible by the fact that we expect to get internet services for free and the normal method of funding for these services has been to allow advertisers to control the content that we see.

We have seen the advent of a new monetary technology that many believe will change the world. Though many of them argue about whether it is a currency or just a store of value. Might it be possible that we could use this new system to pay for content online? Thereby extracting ourselves from the increasingly hypnotic prison that we are building for ourselves.