March 23, 1997, Il Gazzettino, Venezia: Here’s Who will Conquer the Earth

Ecco chi conquistera la Terra - Quando tutto il mondo sara collegato alla rete
Here’s Who will Conquer the Earth - When the Whole World will be Joined to the Net

By Roberto Capodieci, information consultant

The Internet is defined as the information superhighway. In fact, it is traversed by thousands of notices, which go from one side to another all around the world. And none of the users ever lingers over the thought that among so many messages, some of their personal ones may be “robbed” by someone and used for the most avaricious reasons…

Once connected to the Internet, who can assure us that the data contained in our own computers are not transmitted in parallel at the same time with the rest of our messages and the screens that we look at?

As a programmer, I can assure you that this would be possible to do easily, much more so if all the software that is in your personal computer is produced by my company… starting from your operating system, passing through the word-processing program, finishing with the program that connects you to the Internet.

The first thing I would do, hiding it from the eyes of the inexperienced navigator, would be to have available all the IPs (identification numbers of the computers on the Internet), accompanied by the license number of the installed applications, in order to have a look at all the copies of software that circulate. And this would also be lawful…

But what do you say about the day in which all the world will be linked to the Internet, the computers will have many more functions (fax, video, answering machine, scheduler) and telecommunications, thanks to fiber optics, will have a much higher speed?

Will we all be in the hands of a young man from America who will know all about us and will have the possibility to decide and influence us with messages and images? Maybe someone has discovered the system for conquering the Earth…