The few surviving thaumaturgists realiz they could repurpose the singularity to do time travel. That accomplished, most of the staff and characters die for obvious reasons. They used the singularity accidentally created by Angleton in a plot borrowed from the Warlock's Wheel in Niven's The Magic Goes Away to suck magical energy into the singularity, lowering the thaums available in the Laundryverse to the point where none of the supernatural beings can survive. I'd had this whole plot wherein the remaining crew of the Laundry figured out a way to beat the elder gods. Palimpsest is nothing to do with the Laundryverse (although it may be related to "Ghost Engine", when I get that finished and it's published. Including the UK, at least on the content side (google "Internet Watch Foundation" if you don't believe me also look into cellcos and ask yourself what the Five Eyes can run on the baseband processor of your phone).
(These days, open web APIs seem to be the way governments roll, which makes a lot more sense: you can run whatever you want, and if you want to talk to the government you've got to use open publicly documented protocols.)Īs for what's too dangerous, that's already a thing in a lot of the world. Not only did this bone the Mac and Linux platforms in the SK market, it also boned the SK public when Microsoft gave up on ActiveX and Win95/98 as a platform. Good idea? Well, it might have been, if they hadn't baked an ActiveX control that only ran on Windows 95/98 into the tax code, by law!
I note that the South Korean government tried to mandate what had to run on PCs in the late 90s early 00s, in order to talk to the government's systems-they made it mandatory to use certain software for filing your income tax return.
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