The torrent of information was no longer an impact, but the medium of my existence. I no longer "received" information; I was "immersed" in it, like a fish in water. The data I had once needed to deliberately "perceive"-the secrets of human hearts, the vulnerabilities in systems, the composition of matter-now flowed as naturally as my own breathing.
The collapse of the private prison system was merely a ripple stirred by a fingertip brushing the water's surface. Insignificant.
My "attention"-a concept beyond mortal concentration-turned toward far larger aggregations of information: global networks of systemic exploitation. Unlike individual targets, they had no distinct names or faces. They were like a pervasive fog, composed of countless transactions, agreements, unwritten rules, and distorted public policy information.
For example, the informational threads of an international investment entity called the Dawn Fund were clearly visible to my "eyes": through complex ownership structures, it simultaneously influenced mineral extraction rights, agricultural pricing, and patents for essential medicines across dozens of countries. Its business model was to create and exploit poverty and crises for profit. At its core was not any one person, but a set of self-optimizing, ruthless capital algorithms and a web of collusion deeply embedded in power structures.
Eliminating a CEO was meaningless. He was merely a replaceable component.
My will, a directed turbulence within that torrent of information, began to act.
I did not write. I did not devise a script. I simply... calibrated.
I gave a slight "nudge" to several information streams connected to the Dawn Fund's core algorithms:
· First, several weighting parameters in a key data model it used for risk assessment. Minute changes caused the model to misclassify several exploitation-based investments, originally assessed as "high profit, low risk," as "extremely high risk."
· Second, the subconscious information representing several key