From the beginning of time till just a decade or so ago, our political, social and economic/financial structures were based on certain assumptions about information privacy. These assumptions are being violated massively as we speak, Sometimes the "experiments" are giant flops, sometimes they are frighteningly successful.
The discussion about the global distribution of interconnected silicon and who has what access and control over which parts has barely begun. What geopolitical segmentation will we see. Is its economy going to be free or some sort of digital feudalism? Will it encode humanistic concepts or introduce new types of segmentation into first/second class humans? etc.