The fuse

Social networks, a playground for manipulation campaigns, Bill Hinton / EL PAÍS

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• A cyberattack of Russian origin hits the United States Government again

Navigating through virtual space, any idiot can feel like an intergalactic hero.

With the supreme will concentrated in the tip of a single finger, more capricious and fulminant than that of Nero, this idiot with a simple

from the sofa he can annihilate the master of the empire, the Pope of Rome, all the monarchs and presidents of the government, plutocrats and bankers, any peacock that pokes its head out of any screen. You may think that it is not an effective power, but a simple virtual game, but the fact that with your finger you can erase from the map any powerful that appears in the image serves to compensate for the frustration of this being humiliated by life , who after a day's work comes home defeated. On the other hand, the networks allow this idiot and hundreds of millions of others like him to act as hanging judges with the power to render very visceral summary judgments against anyone who dares to express an opinion. In fact, these idiots have ended up establishing a regime of terror in space.But not everyone who is out on the web is so frustrated. There are those capable of finding a gap in the web and turning off an entire country with their finger, dismantling the entire banking system, turning upside down from the Vatican to the Pentagon. These

are like old Chicago rakers, demanding a ransom in exchange for protection. The more complex modern society has become the more vulnerable and if it were true that everything tends towards Platonic unity, there will come a time when all the computing networks that surround the world, increasingly dense, will be concentrated in a single fuse. That creature has already been born who will find that essential fuse and with a simple

, playing god with his finger, he can cause a planetary collapse and leave humanity without memory in the middle of the Middle Ages.