Preface

Published

11 May 2026 20:57

I had a reason to write this book. That reason is to let others know how to move their personal and business systems away from US products like Windows because they are dangerous.

In-house I call it the “Big Web Project”. In a moment of pure genius I thought to call the book The Big Web Book and the website bigweb-book.com. Who would have thought!

Joking aside, we all urgently need to do something to protect our digital safety, predominantly because a few politicians have placed us all, including our children, in extreme danger.

Data danger

I live in the UK. Born and bred there, early ’50s Westminster. Well travelled. Seen changes. I’m old.

I’ve seen UK and European politicians continuously mix up society to dishonourably manipulate their votes. This happens in many western democracies. We don’t need to look to far, do we USA?

Last week our Starmer Labour government was trounced, absolutely drubbed. A nasty and wicked core were those politicos who attacked the people who built the country— whilst giving away free money and services to mostly recent incomers because they were thought most likely to support the Labour vote.

The present government has, like their predecessors, also given away our data for little more than political gain (and probably pay to do so).

United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS) is free for all. Our politicians brought in a USA data collection company with access to medical records to manage NHS for “us”. What data company? Palantir. Yes, that Palantir,1 possibly one of the most dangerous companies in history, led at the time of writing by Alex Karp.2 Search him in your browser: that is the type of personality our data is given to. We are right to be worried.

Why?

Israeli’s have perfected a form of warfare involving profiling a target’s personal data to stalk their online presence (particularly via their families and friends). With geolocation via telephones and further data intelligence from USA also triangulate approximate position: the target’s own together with that of family and friends.

On a sunny day, or balmy evening, a little girl and her brother play and laugh. They are happy. Adults watch, contentedly. A few seconds later they all lay in pieces.

An Israeli mentality blitzed the whole building and neighbourhood to kill one target. Or is it to kill that target and the women who cannot then produce children, or the children who cannot then grow with the memory of their loss.

The Israeli cyclic technique is to harass victims, often kill them, to move them from land Israelis want to thieve for themselves. When enough victims are killed and maimed, when enough of them lost their home of generations and everything of the life they knew, some are so despondent they strike back in frustration and anger. That is the negotiating position the Israelis want to promote so they can say they are acting in self defence. It is a dishonest position of the most appalling form of cowards, relying on evil intent that is nothing to do with the Ten Commandments Israelis claim as their right to carry out this evil.3 And no doubt there will be many pro-Israelis who will engage in excuses and manipulative vitriol in attempts to divert the facts placed here. If past performance is anything to go by, they would include false claims about my religion (I am multi-religious for good reason). 4

3 A note of caution… If it is to do with Moses, then Israelis are duty bound to also attack and take south Lebanon, west Jordan and south-west Syria over time. This guarantees war in the region for decades and likewise a drain on the USA, who Israeli followers have a stranglehold upon at many levels. Israel defending itself is most unlikely. It will need funds, much of which could come from harvesting personal data. Worldwide economic chaos upon most countries and their people will follow in waves for this pursuit. Use your search engine to discover maps about ancient lands in the area (“Moses and the promised land overlaid map”).

4 A lifelong asthmatic, my heart has stopped on more than one occasion. Most people only get one chance to discover what happens next.

Extrapolate that Israeli mentality to many US digital and social media organisations— and their leaders, like Karp. So many USA companies are recipients of significant fines for profile collection, but without anything compelling to stop them whilst governments feed their greed.

  • Clearview AI: facial scraping from Instagram, Facebook and others5
  • Meta (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp): Especially the Max Schrems case that led to European GDPR6
  • Yahoo!:7 Involved in the largest data breach in history (3 billion accounts) and accused of secretly harvesting and monetizing user data
  • LinkedIn:8 Fined in 2024 for violating GDPR by using personal data for behavioural analysis without proper consent
  • Uber Technologies Inc: Fined in 2024 for transferring European driver data to the US without adequate safeguards, violating GDPR9

5 “Clearview AI,” Wikipedia, March 30, 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Clearview_AI&oldid=1346177192.

6 “Max Schrems,” Wikipedia, March 28, 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Max_Schrems&oldid=1345867169.

7 “Yahoo data breaches,” Wikipedia, March 27, 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yahoo_data_breaches&oldid=1345628175.

8 Wikipedia contributors, “LinkedIn,” in Wikipedia, May 8, 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=LinkedIn&oldid=1353193970.

9 “EU: Uber Hit by Record €290 Million Fine for Failing to Properly Safeguard Drivers’ Personal Data,” Business; Human Rights Centre, accessed May 11, 2026, https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/eu-uber-hit-by-record-290-million-fine-for-failing-to-properly-safeguard-drivers-personal-data/.

Of course, these are only a few examples. Ordinary people may have expected executives of these companies, and those who trade with them, to operate with a level of honour suitable to society but my-oh-my, look what they did!

When trust is breached, everything is breached.

These practices by executives of digital data are common. Far from respecting clients, subscribers and employees, their quasi-criminal post-verdict improvements represent the result of manipulated “Terms of use”. By lawyers of course (pronounced liars in parts of Scotland). Like Starmer. That’s worrying, not least because there are many judges who left the bench in disgrace. And there is currently a senior judge in Scotland’s capital city who has with another committed a six figure fraud but is protected by the bench from prosecution, lest it embarrasses them.10 As for police authorities, even if they were competent on the subject, they are significantly disinterested.

10 Detailed evidence available of course

It is when we begin to understand the evidence of data practice, the ethics and integrity of those who control data, and the lack of legal integrity or protection, that we begin to realise where hidden dangers can emerge from. In a data-driven society where each of us are profiled we, especially computer and data scientists, can envisage…

  • Machines programmed to cease medical or care needs to those who don’t deserve it, or keep alive in unwilling discomfort those who can afford to pay
  • Machines programmed to analyse whether we should get employment or not (LinkedIn and Indeed users beware)
  • Street scanning with arrest by moving machine and vehicle forfeiture for unpaid taxes or fines
  • Moving and flying machines for targeted war and pseudo-war assassination
  • Machine apprehension and removal of immigrants whose long ago original applications were fraudulent (as when documents are observed to be fraudulent, failing to integrate with society, or pay sufficient taxes)
  • Intelligent machine AI biochemistry development of substances designed to reduce over–population (human and pets like dogs)
  • Machine-targeted energy switch off for unpaid bills (including elderly and infirm)
  • Secret data analysis of historic income and property to detect, collect and forfeit money and property related to unexplained wealth11
  • Periodic contribution taxes based upon wealth over previous x-years

11 Politicians present and past, vape shop operators and organised criminals beware!

Far fetched?

Keep in mind that, in 2026, China has intelligent moving machines running half marathons, buddying police on patrol and serving in restaurants. Chinese courts use GPT-judges for common cases. Chinese authorities seemingly excel in this practical adoption of data-driven machinery.

To data scientists, the thought “But I haven’t done anything wrong, why should I worry?” is about as dumb as jumping out of an aeroplane at altitude— without a parachute. When we actively have our own state and suppliers trading our whole personalities, our souls, via consumer data usage (see the Target pregnant teenager12), where do we go for protection?

12 “Target Corporation,” Wikipedia, May 10, 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Target_Corporation&oldid=1353540272.

Between 2026 and 2030 the sudden change in societies resulting from AI and intelligent machines will become apparent. Looking back from 2031-2035, humans will wish they had taken precautions.

About 1974 I was a volunteer with the Royal Observer Corps. We met in an underground bunker and plotted nuclear bursts, fallout, half-wave decay and the like. We occasionally had practice emergencies to arrive at critical venues. I learned a lot about nuclear bombs. We had a sign in the regional bunker, built to house about 30 people underground for two years: “At the first sign of a bright blue flash, bend down, place your head between your knees, and kiss your arse goodbye!” Today’s data danger is far worse. If abused, it could quickly get to the point of extreme danger to humanity. Silently. Stealthily. No alarms. No big bangs.

How do I know?

It did not occur to me, upon setting out on this particular journey, that the reason for this project would cost me so much time in writing, frustration when researching references, and realisation of too many decades passionately devoted (wasted?) in digital technology.

I was there at the beginning. Hence part of that reason popped out from witnessing fish-lipped morons who pollute decades of Internet communications effort by my peers. Many of those peers are, and were, geniuses of logic. Humanity owes a duty to protect their combined effort from worse than fishy-lips: predators who will now use digital technology for conquest of one kind or another, like for ripping out your soul with data profiling and cyber slander.

Robots are coming here

Beijing 2026 proved bipedal robots can outperform exceptional humans.

To arm them with our human profiles via land and satellite communications, to enable them at a glance to decide our lifestyle or which of our number is chosen to reduce human overpopulation, would be to place global power in the hands of human despots who control them. That will happen suddenly. Soon.

Robotic systems we cannot see are preparing right now: grabbing your data, your, lifestyle, your child’s future. In readiness for something potentially very nasty. By the people you should be able to trust: you government. You, in contrast, will fantasise nothing bad will happen. You haven’t done anything wrong, right? Large corporations are in the same position— unless they do something to protect their networks and trade it will be too late to change operating systems. Too many of them are walking on ice.

Unless, that is, we humans do something about it. Something coordinated and fast.

Russia could make history (but too daft to realise it)

Ironically, the one person who could help, and become one of the greatest leaders in all of recorded history, doesn’t realise what he can do, or the phenomenal benefits to his state as well as the rest of us. It isn’t, of course, the most evil individual the world has known for hundreds of years. That foolish puppet of another state simply proved the arrogant greed of “Americans” who voted him in (and sold their soul to another country).13 And to avoid confusion, nor is it the leader of the world’s pirate state the one in prime position to change the world for the better.

13 Of course, not referring to descendents of native tribes and former slaves of that once great land. Happening again by Americans in the Middle East. They seem to have an excuse for every murderous and destructive but are far too cowardly to fight on a level basis, like in commerce throughout the world.

I mention “ironically” because it is Putin. All he has to do at this unique opportunity in time is engage in partnership with European leaders to form the roots of One Europe— and forget the silly-minded chip-on-the-shoulder “it’s my toy” mentality of Russia’s past and present. In one fell swoop he could join landed east-west trade routes, resolve many regional crises, engage the Middle East as part of the family, and set about new, modern, Internet and energy pipelines. As a beginning!

Instead we seem to have a world full of biased predatory self-interest, heavily underpinned by movements masquerading as religions and their and garbed individuals pretending not to represent invasion whilst they carry two passports. Invasion? Law, originally developed to protect societies, has become the weapon of invasion. It is founded upon fraud. It fragments society.

Bring back honour

But perhaps the underlying question is: has personal honour and integrity almost completely gone? Is that what we are observing as the invisible mycelia of digital technology negatively infiltrates human minds, progressively strangling thoughts, freedoms and fitness? Together with the mingling of cultures who do not care for native societies, or their way of life, has this caused a collapse in honour towards ourselves and other, where cheating and evasion have become acceptable instead of disgustingly deplorable?

We rely on digital devices now, but what has happened, is happening, with computer products?

We need an antidote to one-sided computer, smartphone and Internet based digital products that systematically wreck people and ways of life. We need to trap cyber espionage caused by decades of loopholes in operating system libraries. We need something that protects and provides a genuine service to populations. We need something based upon honour and integrity, not a greed and a fraud system that deprives countries of tax.

We need to rebalance digital products that pollute our digital and social systems.

We need digital heroes to do it.

That is what this Big Web project is designed to do. Not simply bring people safely together (that’s too philosophic) but provide a service that invokes trust, usefulness and cost efficiency throughout social and business communities whilst protecting our digital security.

The Big Web Project

Chapter one, Today’s web, describes how today’s digital technology arrived, and the use we put it to, so we can understand what was done. Chapter two, Worldwide web of the future indicates likely technology and events if we continue on our present path. Whilst some of it is good, even very good, some is astonishingly bad.

Starting with how ordinary users and digital producers can prepare their systems, other chapters explain practically, with tools and configuration, how to convert from costly Microsoft and other US digital products to cheap or free, worldly safe, systems that grow businesses, offer a Worldwide Web of joined mostly free services, and educate to provide the technological knowledge required for the future.

For the technically minded, these are orchestrated systems.

Once in the domain of banks and travel organisations like SkyScanner, orchestration allows small businesses to grow safely and communities (including schools and other academies) to protect their loved ones from predators and cyber thugs (civil and military). Chapters provide step-by-step detail how to achieve this. Chapter three, Workstation essentials, for example, shows how to prepare desktop and laptop computers for the move by operating Linux systems on top of Windows to switch between. People require time to become familiar with new systems, no matter how similar,

If we know what was done, and with a fair degree of accuracy what is coming, we have the foundations for how to consolidate, improve, and conjoin interfaced digital product and services. Like Henry Ford did with the Model T assembly line.14 That includes interfacing with home products, cars, robots, flying systems and communications— not only on the Internet. I already do this from my solar powered mobile home.

14 “Assembly line,” Wikipedia, March 5, 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Assembly_line&oldid=1341825842.

How to achieve?

The Big Web Project will help sole web producers, small firms, large businesses, and organisations convert their online and network presence from insecure targets into secure orchestrated architectures. It begins with setting up foundation systems. When built, these foundations enable rapid conversion from lock-in platforms like Windows into a more world-centric architecture with fast updates from reliable, safe, software vaults. When proficient, it will provide new well paid careers as a reward for effort.

Speaking of effort, I learned long ago that it takes 10,000 hours of organised effort to become an acknowledged expert,15 like a commercial aircraft captain. It takes 2,000 hours to become proficient. That’s five years of 40-hour weeks versus one year. Big respect for doctors and musicians! Based on talent, that is.16 In digital terms, hardware represents talent, software the time and effort (what is put into the hardware). Assembling cooperative groups of interested like-minded people and organisations will succeed when effective effort is applied .

15 K. Anders Ericsson, “K. Anders Ericsson,” in Wikipedia, July 17, 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=K._Anders_Ericsson&oldid=1300927851.

16 Malcolm Gladwell, “Outliers,” in Wikipedia, July 7, 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Outliers_(book)&oldid=1299225509.

In summary, something needs to be done that urgently progresses to a tipping point annulling digital dangers. Otherwise not even governments can control the large artificial intelligence based organisations about to control life.

The Big Web Project needs to get going. For my part, I’m putting lots of effort into it every day! Me? Can I do it? Will you be part of it? My brief history, next.