For a brief historical moment, humanity has flown high like Icarus, on a vulnerable first-generation Internet platform for securing and using distributed ideas, arts, media, science, commerce, and machines—promising brilliant futures such as a network of things, autonomous personalized services, and immersive media. But now our first-generation Internet, built on a fragile global network of vulnerable codes, is failing, like the wings of Icarus, from too close an encounter with a triple shock: A massive dotcom data stalker economy built on mining of terabytes personal data Ubiquitous criminal penetration of financial and identity networks, both on our devices and in the cloud Pervasive state intruders at all levels and at every encrypted hardware and software node