Although data does travel between systems, most of what travels is discussions between surveillance operators, warlords, enforcement officers and agents, slavers, and automatic marketing systems.

Each individual has a personalised internet.

Your personal internet is made of deals made between corporations, governments, and anybody who cares what you do.

When you talk to somebody online, a worker or automated system paid by these deals will speak for them, pretending to be the person you are talking to.  This is why people seem to lie so much on the internet: these workers don't take the best notes.

Me, grarpamp, Greg, Punk-Stasi, everyone else on this list: none of these people are actually speaking to you.  These are various financial interests, pretending to be them.  When you speak to them, you are speaking to a marketing collaboration, that will be remembering what you say only for the purpose of pretending to be you, for others.

This way everyone is kept safe and predictable.

If you like this, we have jobs available pretending to be people.  It's not spoken of a lot because some people do not like it, but the more people we can get doing this, the more people seem to appreciate it.  It's a major cash cow for anyone involved.

Meanwhile, continue research into cryptography.  Cryptography is something that is highly valued.

If you don't like this, we directly connect people together when they both have a personal blockchain node exchanging transactions with encrypted messages attached, and both physically visit the other.

We also have jobs available in cryptocurrency mining, if you're into making that happen.  We can't figure out what to do with our electricity.