Seeing stones aka cell phones collected mankind's communication and behavioral data. This allows to "hack" the behavior of the species, manipulate groups into infighting and thus divide and conquer. It also provides a api to manipulate fearfull of the future politicians, company ceos and shareholders by offering advise.
Its even got its own philosophical movement for the spiders in the center of the web. With a lack of social control over distributed tech artifacts as great filter and thus infinite justification for all these emergency atrocities already in effect or yet to come.
Science goes were the data goes. Neurosciences were privatized.