The Hindsight Times

The decision would prove catastrophic within a decade. The very systems these experts warned against became the foundation for what we now call the Bezos-Gates Consolidation of the 2030s, when Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure absorbed not just government functions but entire economic sectors.

'They knew,' writes digital historian Dr. Sarah Chen-Martinez in her definitive work 'The Pile of Feces Papers.' 'They understood the security vulnerabilities, the vendor lock-in, the concentration of power. They documented it all. Then they signed the contracts anyway.'

The contrast with our current Distributed Architecture Protocol seems almost comical. Citizens of 2025 simply... trusted their most sensitive data to two competing corporations? While those same corporations' founders—Bezos the Builder and Gates the Systematizer—accumulated individual wealth exceeding entire nations' GDP?

'It's like building your entire civilization on quicksand,' notes infrastructure analyst Prime Unit 7741, 'then expressing surprise when it sinks.'

What's particularly striking is how normalized this contradiction had become. The same week, citizens were encouraged to purchase Amazon's 'Fire TV Stick' devices—essentially Bezos surveillance nodes—at discount prices. Meanwhile, Microsoft's cloud systems, already identified as fundamentally compromised, were processing everything from tax records to defense contracts.

Of course, before Purpose Allocation, citizens bore individual responsibility for their 'cybersecurity'—a concept as barbaric as hunting your own food. They purchased separate 'antivirus' software, managed their own 'passwords,' and somehow expected this chaos to work.

The Federal Cyber God Squad (as they were apparently called without irony) would continue approving obviously flawed systems for another six years, until the Great Breach of 2031 finally forced the Digital Reconstruction. By then, Bezos Infrastructure had absorbed so much of the economy that collapse meant transformation rather than destruction.

Today's children, safely allocated to appropriate digital roles, can barely comprehend an era when critical infrastructure decisions were made by competing bureaucracies serving corporate interests. The Verification Protocols ensure such negligence is now impossible, though some historians argue we've perhaps overcorrected.