RSSwhile bridges truly collapse or stand for what them were meant in the first place, one important factor of social control is the DESIGN of everything, and which technologies are ALLOWED to be implemented at all. As a former academic with more than 40 years of experience, trained in the hard sciences and with a Ph.D. (actually two) in the Ivy League scheme of what science is about, I can tell with eyes closed and wide open, that corruption was the case, to my knowledge, already at the 80s, and thinking outside of the box was always strictly forbidden.Political correctness was always enforced, if needed, the panoptikon has always worked wonders. Nowadays is only more explicit. But the violence was always to rectify the enquiring ones, and the academics eager to get funding at whatever cost, were conspicuous, to do the Military Complex will. One cannot forget that luminaries as Gregory Bateson, one of the founders of cybernetics, worked for them. Of course, he let himself be used and ultimately discarded, business as usual.