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Technological slavery

Technology is inseparable from civilization. It has modified the world endlessly. Because of it, we can, for example, send information to the other end of the world in seconds; talk to individuals from different continents; journey to any place on this planet in sooner or later; retailer hundreds of photos on a drive the scale of your thumb; create virtual realities, in addition to do a bunch of other issues that nobody would have imagined just 100 years in the past.

But technology has its unhealthy facet too. In the present world, it is controlled by organizations who don't have our best pursuits in thoughts. They won't hesitate to use expertise's great power in opposition to us. Spying on - and analyzing - our communication; controlling the knowledge we obtain; emotional manipulation; modification of conduct - those are just some issues technology is being used for lately. All that with more coverage, accuracy, effectiveness and with much less human effort. If this "progress" is not stopped, we will end up in a prison that we wouldn't discover in our worst nightmares.

I will attempt to describe the way a very powerful technologies of immediately contribute to the creation of a worldwide system of control. I will also mention a number of applied sciences of the longer term, and check out to attach all the data collectively and predict the fate of this world. Let's start with one of many inventions that have an effect on people essentially the most - The Internet.

The Internet

Every connection, for example sending a message, or getting into a website, goes via your Internet Service Provider, earlier than it reaches the target. In idea this implies ISPs can freely spy on and modify all the pieces you do on the web; for instance - decelerate or block the downloading of torrents; inject commercials to your visited websites http://zmhenkel.blogspot.com/2013/03/isp-advertisement-injection-cma.html (archive) (MozArchive), and even create a massive censorship system, just like the so-known as "Great Wall" of China.

The most common usage of the Internet is searching websites, for which we use an online browser equivalent to Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer or Google Chrome. These three "giants" pretty much exist to collect knowledge on their customers. Google not less than admits to it - alternatively, Mozilla pretends to care about your freedom and privacy, but truly spies on you and controls you. It's been just a few years since Mozilla determined they'll determine what add-ons you'll be able to and can't set up - apparently to "protect the customers", however nothing stops them from, for instance, disabling AdBlock. Mozilla has labored with advertisers for a very long time - they've even proven them in your New Tab panel: https://blog.mozilla.org/advancingcontent/2015/05/21/providing-a-precious-platform-for-advertisers-content material-publishers-and-users/ (archive) (MozArchive). The myth of Firefox "respecting the consumer" has died and won't resurrect. Just read a sure reply from their web site: Our merchandise don't interrupt the browsing expertise; they catch users when they're most receptive to seeing new information. So, for them, you're merely prey to be caught for the aim of having commercials be shoved into your brain. Despite that, they nonetheless spew slogans about "respect and freedom". I might spend the entire article on pointing out all the ways standard web browsers exploit you. Opera, for instance, actually spies in your entire web historical past with out your information. The three giants mentioned earlier additionally spy on you, but in another methods.

Almost every big web site works carefully with the police / authorities and will fortunately share information about you with them - for example, the IP deal with of the computer you made a forum put up from. Exceptions, akin to Lavabit (fascinating story by the best way - you possibly can read it on the web) or The Pirate Bay, have their servers raided.

Lately, it turned fashionable to store your information "in the cloud", for instance Dropbox or Google Drive. This is admittedly helpful to the elites - they'll now see and analyze your files, which can give them details about your interests or plans (which could be used in opposition to you). One man from 4chan was storing bomb making directions on Dropbox, solely to search out that, at some point, they have been deleted. The Internet is full of circumstances like that, and they are not all about bombs. Thus, we are able to see that your knowledge is not secure on these cloud "providers" - it ceases being yours. Probably, in several years, wanting to maintain your information by yourself drive can be thought-about "abnormal" - and cloud storage might be the usual - like it is at the moment with cash vs financial institution accounts, for instance. This may open the door to complete control of your saved information, automatically blocking materials about - for instance - the aforementioned bombs. Another, perhaps extra plausible possibility, would be punishing the people who upload such information - like movie producers did with folks downloading certain torrents.

Google

How do most people find info on the web? Using Google, after all. But Google is one thing greater than only a search engine - it's a corporation whose intention is gathering as a lot information as potential and creating a profile about you. Their spy scripts (for instance, google analytics) exist just about on each site - you could even not know what Google is, but still be spied on. That knowledge is then used to, for example, show you targeted commercials, but also completely different search outcomes. So a Christian looking for "abortion" will see one thing else than an atheist.

Google went additional and invented a new algorithm for displaying search outcomes. The sites who're, in response to them, primarily based on "information" shall be higher up. Then again, those that contain untrue info (once more, according to them) might be additional down. One of the methods Google charges the reality value of web sites is comparing them with the articles on Wikipedia. And since we know the way Wikipedia treats conspiracy theories, we are able to assume they may pushed away by official variations of events. Soon, once we seek for something like "genetically modified organisms" we are going to only get "prepared" info. Google's invention could develop into one in every of the best tools of censorship and opinion management.

Google also controls other frequent providers. One among the most popular is YouTube, which they've been "reforming" since they bought it. I was surprised when a couple of years in the past I couldn't log in to my YouTube account without making a Gmail account. I did not want their e-mail (which spies on you) so I mentioned goodbye to YouTube. I didn't use it a lot, however nonetheless.

Another YouTube reform is known as Content ID. It is supposed to protect copyright. The creator of a film or song can share their creation with Google, which can then examine it with every different file on YouTube. If it considers one of those information close enough to the submission, it should both delete that file, remove sound from it, or add advertisements.

- Nintendo was in a position to put ads on some motion pictures showcasing their games: http://www.destructoid.com/nintendo-is-claiming-possession-of-let-s-play-movies-253793.phtml (archive) (MozArchive)- An individual uploaded some birds singing. Content ID assumed it was some copyright protected music, and added advertisements to it, which earned the creator of the nonexistent song money. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120227/00152917884/man-gets-bogus-youtube-copyright-declare-birds-singing-background.shtml (archive) (MozArchive)- Some company even put advertisements on another person's song, and earned money from it: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150317/10513630347/umg-licenses-indie-artists-track-then-uses-content-id-to-claim-ownership-it.shtml (archive) (MozArchive)

Before Content ID was invented, somebody who thought that a film violates copyright, needed to send YouTube a type, which could possibly be accepted or not. Today although, they have a much simpler approach known as Content ID, which allows them to earn cash if it finds some similarities. You may theoretically enchantment a Content ID determination, however it is pointless because the enchantment can be determined by...the identical company that uploaded the file. Many pissed off persons are complaining in internet feedback, saying that Content ID is terrible, that it made a mistake with their movie, that they're stealing their money, that they've lost their files or their account. There've been debates about copyright and AI typically. Some people have stated that movie or music creators needs to be completely satisfied to have their content shared on YouTube. But these discussions can exist solely because Content ID happened. Without it, people could freely share their films without them being probably modified / deleted by computerized evaluation.

The same program could possibly be used to delete motion pictures about undesirable topics. Even now YouTube is deleting "racist", "nationalist", "insulting" movies - even when often that is just an excuse; but they have to do it by hand. If they put together Content ID with the positioning sorting algorithm, they might create a system that deletes certain content robotically. A more advanced type of that algorithm may even delete certain parts of films which have undesirable subjects (for example, deleting a number of second lengthy half with a racist slur). It will work much like the profanity filters on boards. But it surely wouldn't be limited solely to that - Google has proven, that they are very interested by controlling your beliefs, once they've created the location sorting algorithm I spoke about earlier. A software that could detect the place in your movie an undesirable matter is mentioned, and substitute it with their modified version, can be very welcome of their arsenal.

You would write an entire ebook about Google; I don't need to do it - however I should briefly mention some other things they've done. Recaptcha is the most popular solution to defend boards from spambots. When you wanted to put in writing something on a discussion board with recaptcha, you needed to kind a sure word. You did not always get a word, although - you could get one thing like a road address, which might then get added to Google StreetView, which allows spying on people. For years, anybody who wrote on 4chan, was filling their database with road addresses, while not essentially understanding about that. What really is StreetView? Google vehicles travel the world taking footage of every part and everyone. Then they put these pictures of their database, which could be searched by anyone. Google has entry to pictures of the entire Earth, just about - and even to the historical past of places individuals search for utilizing their maps. What could that info be used for? You may read on Wikipedia that a lot of nations had a problem with StreetView. They thought it intrudes on the citizen's privateness. But after "consultations" they've all agreed to permit it. Isn't this evidence that we're dealing with a worldwide plan to spy on individuals?

They've changed ReCaptcha since I wrote the above. Now, you get a set of photos and you've got to decide on those containing a sure merchandise, for example hamburgers. That is used to prepare Google's artificial intelligence, which may even in all probability be used towards us sooner or later. I'll finish this section with a quote from Google We do not need you to kind at all. We know the place you might be. We know where you've got been. We are able to more or less know what you're excited about.

Social networks

Considered one of the preferred internet websites as of late are social networks, comparable to Facebook or Twitter. People flock to them like flies, filling their databases with information comparable to title, surname, telephone number, place of labor, pursuits, and pal lists. They haven't got an issue with sharing their political opinions. Facebook makes it very easy, since the Like! button appears on hottest websites, and clicking it sends info to Facebook about the article you preferred. How may they use that info? For example, for displaying focused advertisements. Just a few years ago, Facebook promised that it might by no means try this - however then modified their mind and it is now a reality. A few of these ads might be insulting - for instance, a person suffering from most cancers, after searching for details about it on the web, was proven advertisements about...burial services! http://www.naturalnews.com/049386_Facebook_privacy_surveillance.html (archive) (MozArchive)

Comments written on these social networks are much more dangerous. They are hooked up to your real identify, and whoever finds your account can read them. What may very well be the effects of that? You can lose your job or be arrested. Some examples:

- A person was arrested for posting lyrics of a heavy metal music on Twitter. The federal government thought he was actually threatening to kill individuals and he was arrested. This incident was described in detail here: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140906/13490628443/heavy-metal-lyrics-posted-to-facebook-consequence-arrest-terrorist-threats.shtml (archive) (MozArchive)- A waitress lost their job 48 hours after complaining on Facebook that she's earning too little in suggestions. http://www.inc.com/news/articles/2010/05/waitress-fired-for-fb-post.html (archive) (MozArchive)

We could possibly be specializing in singular situations - was someone punished appropriately or not? You can even blame the sufferer. However the logical thing to do is to have a look at the whole challenge from afar. If these feedback have been made in individual, and never on the web, no one could have gotten in bother. The potential for punishing someone is the consequence of the technology that attaches the things you put up to your identify. After years of utilizing social networks, you might find one thing on anyone, even if he didn't assume that the message he is writing would have given him issues later.

300 employers have been requested whether they've checked the profiles of their would-be recruits, and 91% agreed. 69% dismissed an employee because of one thing he had in his profile. Some of the offending things were: destructive opinions about previous employers, pictures of using medicine or drinking alcohol, or "inappropriate" photos.

There are additionally extra direct ways in which the social networks can affect you. In 2014 Facebook did a psychological experiment that was supposed to indicate that you can management human minds without figuring out them personally, and without their information. 689003 folks (who weren't conscious of being lab rats) have been divided into two teams - one of them was proven only content material producing positive feelings, the other - only unfavourable. The more constructive content someone noticed, the more positively he himself responded. The variations were small, however maybe they might be increased with more drastic measures. For example, exhibiting somebody articles about murders or kidnappings. You could also target the content someone was going to be shown individually - based upon the things he's written in his profile, or his shopping historical past (which Facebook collects via the Like! buttons). If somebody reads a whole lot of anti-government web sites, they would be shown articles about the federal government doing something unhealthy. Or an anti-GMO particular person would be shown information about GMOs being legalized someplace. It is plausible that this experiment opened the door to simply this sort of factor. You'll be able to learn the entire experiment right here: http://www.pnas.org/content/111/24/8788.full (archive) (MozArchive)

Facebook additionally uses an algorithm for detecting faces on photos and routinely including a reputation to them. http://www.dailydot.com/know-how/facebook-deepface-science/ (archive) (MozArchive). In case your identify is on at the least one picture, every other photo together with your face might be detected as you.

Communication and encryption

Increasingly human communication is done electronically. This has the same drawback as financial institution accounts - you pay for a primary human want. But that's not crucial. A human speaking eye to eye is spontaneous. He is aware of solely the person he's talking to can hear him. Then he brings that attitude in the direction of speaking within the phone, which follows totally different rules - all data about when, the place, and to whom you made the decision is saved within the provider's database. In most international locations the police has access to the info if they've the court order. But in Great Britain - the leader of electronic spying - three of four most used providers ship all their knowledge to police in actual time: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/10/computerized-police-access-prospects-cell-telephone-records-like-money-machine-ripa-three-ee-vodafone/ (archive) (MozArchive). The implications are huge - the same group (the police) who can nice or punish you, now has entry to all of your phone calls. People have been locked up for SMS messages before, but usually they had to bodily search their phones. This requirement disappears with the automated system of sending messages to police.

The same is true of internet communication. Most people use frequent instruments like Gmail or Skype. In one in all his leaked paperwork, Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA (National Security of America) has a program referred to as PRISM, with which those corporations cooperate. Since 2011, Skype gives access to your conversations to the NSA, including video recording:

In fact, we might use less fashionable software program with an encryption capability, however would that protect us from spying?

David Cameron, the prime minister of Great Britain, came up with an idea to ban encryption, arguing that There should be no means of communication, which we can not read. Many people laughed, saying that the federal government would have to delete encryption software program from people's arduous drives (and would that actually be a problem for them? Malware exists, you know). Others thought that they can not implement it, as a result of it could make banking and such insecure. But this seems more like a determined way to dismiss the chance that, within the near future, all our conversations finished electronically will probably be spied on by the federal government.

In one other leak of NSA's paperwork, it was proven that they want to cut back the effectiveness of widespread encryption:

You needn't work with a software program's creator to spy on our conversations, although. Even in open supply software program (that anybody with sufficient knowledge and dedication can inspect), there still happen bugs that may weaken the encryption. For example, OpenSSL, the most popular library encrypting our communications with web sites, for 1.5 years had a bug permitting to obtain a small amount of knowledge from the reminiscence of the server that it is used on, and that data might include passwords and encryption keys. NSA, after all, took benefit of that: https://www.bloomberg.com/information/articles/2014-04-11/nsa-stated-to-have-used-heartbleed-bug-exposing-shoppers (archive) (MozArchive) Another example: Cryptocat screwed up the implementation of an encryption algorithm, which allowed anyone with enough capability to decrypt communication made with it. And NSA has these capabilities - they also save all encrypted communications, so they can decrypt it later.

And they'll most likely succeed - there is a large chance that quantum computers will make all current ciphers irrelevant - https://hackaday.com/2015/09/29/quantum-computing-kills-encryption/ (archive) (MozArchive) - so private conversations will probably be a thing of the past. Add to that voice recognition software program, and we're finding ourselves in a world where all our conversations are looked for certain phrases (by a program much like Content ID I've talked about earlier).

Electronic banking

Cash payments are more and more usually being changed by electronic ones. People like the comfort of with the ability to order something they want and pay for it with a number of clicks. Having a checking account is something regular today, even required. But behind the curtain hide gigantic implications for human privateness and freedom.

Let's start from the fundamentals - what's digital money? It's a quantity in a database on a server belonging to the bank you're using. Your capability to purchase anything depends on how large that number is - and since people must, for instance, eat - your life relies on it. How a lot electronic money you may have is dependent on a variety of belongings you can't have an effect on - simply utilizing a checking account costs cash, so collaborating on this system means you mechanically lose it.

A financial institution can eat far more of your money - even without bearing in mind hacking attacks like this: https://thehackernews.com/2016/05/swift-banking-hack.html (archive) (MozArchive), the place the hackers stole 12 million dollars. One man from Cyprus acquired 720 000 Euros stolen by the european fee to pay off Cyprus' debt. He needed to fire all his Cypriot staff and transfer to another country. First, the sum was displayed as "blocked", then they deleted it altogether from his account. And, as he himself says, Thousands of other firms around Cyprus have the identical scenario. This exhibits how a lot you'll be able to rely on a number in a database - all it takes is one thought in somebody's mind, and it's gone. Read more about this topic here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?matter=160292 (archive) (MozArchive)

Another downside with electronic payments is the fact that they're anti-privateness. All of your transactions are stored within the bank's database. And the individuals controlling the financial institution can use it towards you - blocking undesirable transactions, reminiscent of buying bitcoins http://www.coindesk.com/dutch-bank-rabobank-blocks-bitcoin/ (archive) (MozArchive) or donations to WikiLeaks: http://www.bankrate.com/finance/credit-cards/naughty-issues-credit-card-wont-purchase-6.aspx (archive) (MozArchive). It is simple to imagine a world where all your transactions are analyzed and mechanically blocked in line with a list of banned gadgets.

Paper cash does not have that downside. It will not disappear from your pocket. There isn't a central point that shops information about your transactions. You can't "turn somebody off" if he pays with paper cash - if somebody doesn't wish to promote you something, you go somewhere else. Paper money is a software of the free individual - that is why the elites are concentrating on it.

But you possibly can still use paper money, right? Maybe not for long - they've been attempting to get folks used to digital payments for a very long time. Advertising bank accounts is commonplace. Increasingly more employers require having a bank account. The limits on the quantity you may spend directly with paper money are going down worldwide:

Will they go all the way down to zero? In some locations that is already the case; for example, buses in London can't be paid for in money since three years in the past. The quantity of cashless places will increase, and other people might be tied up in the electronic net of slavery.

2017 replace: since writing the above, the scenario has acquired much worse. In Sweden, funds are almost absolutely digital: https://www.theguardian.com/enterprise/2016/jun/04/sweden-cashless-society-playing cards-telephone-apps-main-europe (archive) (MozArchive) - Swedish buses have not taken money for years, it is impossible to buy a ticket on the Stockholm metro with money, retailers are legally entitled to refuse coins and notes, and street distributors - and even churches - increasingly choose card or telephone funds.

In November 8 of 2016, the prime minister of India has eradicated the two largest notes, which elevated the quantity of debit card payments by 108%. In the radio he mentioned Less-cash first, cashless society next. There are a lot of other examples in different nations, resembling Denmark, the USA, and so on. There's little question we're coping with a worldwide plan to destroy cash.

CCTV cameras

The strongest weapon of the technological management system are positively the CCTV cameras. While you can largely avoid all the other things (not less than for now), the cameras are doing their job just by present. They have been slowly being put into various places - from outlets and schools to the streets, buses and flats; you may assume that wherever you move, your life is being stored, watched and analyzed by strangers. I've known a spot where some drunks appreciated to fulfill up they usually put a camera in there, which the drunks destroyed. But the next day they changed it again, so it's clearly very important to them.

The existence of the spying system completely adjustments the relations between folks and the elites. You cannot feel comfortable knowing that your every move is being spied on (by individuals who can even punish you for those who do something they deem "flawed"). Most people do not appear to care although - they buy in retailers loaded with cameras and send their youngsters to schools which have cameras. Some are even blissful that they're being watched, repeating dumb slogans about "safety", or other excuses that have nothing to do with actuality. But that is just the beginning - the effectiveness of the spying system will increase a lot that you won't be capable to stay the best way you at all times have. So what's the subsequent section of this system?

Advanced cameras can do far more than just recording video and relying on the human's interpretation. They can spy on a human as he goes from one digicam's range to another's, detect faces, mark individuals based on gender or other standards:

They may also detect your conduct and mark it as doubtlessly "suspicious". That is already being utilized in locations like India https://www.nice.com/protecting/press-releases/Nanded-India-Deploys-Nice-Safe-City-Solution-to-Protect-Citizens-Visitors-and-Historical-Sites-129 (archive) (MozArchive), Glasgow https://www.nice.com/defending/press-releases/Nice-Safe-City-Solutions-Deployed-in-Glasgow-to-Bolster-Security-Safety-and-Operations-Management-137 (archive) (MozArchive), and even within the Polish town Katowice http://katowice.naszemiasto.pl/artykul/katowicki-inteligentny-system-monitoringu-i-analizy-czyli,2656606,artgal,t,id,tm.html (archive) (MozArchive)

This system makes absolute slaves out of individuals. There is a central point by which the police can analyze all the data. One of many "suspicious behaviors" that had been being marketed by the CCTV firms was taking out a pistol out of your pocket. But anything at all may be thought of "suspicious". Let's take a look at among the common things that I've seen being banned: promoting stuff on the streets, feeding birds, wearing a mask, walking the dog (!), driving without seat belts, etc. Sometimes folks get fined for this stuff, but they should be discovered first. The intelligent monitoring system removes this requirement, letting the psychopathic elites fine anyone for anything they imagine.

Imagine you're strolling by means of an alley that is loaded with these cameras while eating a sandwich. Then you definitely throw away the bag wherein the sandwich was. A digicam sees that and assigns you a fantastic of fifty dollars for littering. Your face has been detected and the trail you're taking is now being watched and despatched to the police in real time. A few minutes later the police comes; you are attempting to cover however it is not possible, since there are cameras in all places, and they know your position. In the long run, you pay up, the identical as anyone who has ever littered. This may look humorous now, but the technology exists to make this scenario a actuality, it's just a matter of implementing it. The commercials for these cameras make it clear - being in the group won't protect you. Neither will hiding your face, changing clothes, transferring someplace, and many others. People will for positive try to find a method to fool this system, and they might even succeed at the start - but the algorithms will get higher, and can finally make it unattainable to fool them.

Inventions of the future

There are different applied sciences, which have been not too long ago invented, that in the future will gas the management system. Pretty much each new invention has the potential to try this (and even is invented for this reason), however I will strive to explain crucial ones.

Microchips

There is an enormous campaign everywhere in the world to place chips in individuals's pets, allegedly to "be capable of finding them", however really the purpose is to get people used to the concept of chipping. After which they are going to chip the folks. In some bars or workplaces they're already being used to, for instance, open doors; after enough propaganda they will be injected in each baby that is born. They are going to replace ID cards, credit cards, and other current paperwork. They are going to be required in increasingly locations, and you won't be able to fulfill basic needs (reminiscent of purchasing) without them. Why do the elites need to chip the individuals so unhealthy? Because it would allow them to create a gigantic database containing the time and place of every person. This has already been tried in some American faculties, for instance: http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/children-tagged-rfid-chips-creepy-new-expertise-schools-use-observe-every thing-kids-do (archive) (MozArchive). The kids put on ID cards on their necks, and people cards have the chips in them. Their position is being sent to the school computers in actual time, as well as detecting events resembling entering or leaving school, buying lunch, or getting into the library. It's only a matter of time till all of us have them under our skins.

Holograms

Advertisements have been with us for a very long time, even earlier than technology. You'll be able to avoid them by installing AdBlock or switching to a different Tv channel. But you will not be in a position to cover from an commercial displayed, for instance, on grass or the sky. I assumed that is far into the longer term before I wrote this article, but actually, this has already been tried: https://thefutureofthings.com/5069-nike-launched-a-holographic-3d-advertising-campaign/ (archive) (MozArchive) This may be used not only to promote merchandise, but convince individuals of the reality of a certain model of events.

Self-driving automobiles

Already being tested in, for example, California https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-01/tesla-is-testing-self-driving-cars-on-california-roads (archive) (MozArchive). And when they are going to lastly be put into roads, we'll keep listening to about how protected they're (this already happens, however will likely be way more widespread). When individuals finally get satisfied of the security of these automobiles, regular cars will probably be banned since they're allegedly less secure than the pc-managed ones. So we are going to have the ability to drive solely in accordance with the trail the pc chooses, which can in fact also be saved in the worldwide database. Cars and not using a steering wheel (already exist) may also prevent fleeing from the police.

Culmination of the technological management system

The ultimate intention of the technological control system is placing collectively all these instruments to permit full management of humanity. To use the Internet, you'll have to provide your actual name (or perhaps flash a microchip?) - so Anything we do there will probably be related to our real person. All encrypted connections and conversations will likely be decrypted on the fly and analyzed. Freely downloading torrents and even making jokes like "die in a hearth" shall be a thing of the past. All the knowledge you receive shall be managed - similar to what Facebook and Google already do, however globally.

Our physical position will be tracked by cameras and microchip scanners which can be in places reminiscent of shops, airports, flats, and so forth. So our movements might be analyzed in real time - but not by people, like it's now, however by AI (or even robots, farther sooner or later). You will not have the ability to flee from this system - they may even spy on the homeless (there have been already packages to find and catalogue the homeless' place, allegedly to assist them, but it actually was in regards to the spying). Maybe they are going to soon put cameras of their favourite places, if they aren't already doing that. December 17 revision: heh, they're already doing that - https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/13/safety-robots-are-being-used-to-ward-off-san-franciscos-homeless-population/ (archive) (MozArchive). Didn't assume it would get there so fast!

Paper cash will fully disappear. All our transactions can be related to our actual title, as the whole lot else. There will be a large, worldwide database storing the physical place of each particular person, as well as the whole lot he has ever carried out, stated, wrote, purchased...All his movements will, of course, be analyzed in actual time by AI. I feel the expertise for all that already exists - so this is a social or logistical problem, not a technological one. How lengthy will it take the elites to install all that, and get individuals used to slavery? I have no idea. But one factor is for sure: the comfy life that you're used to, will likely be solely a cheerful memory soon.

Update 2022: in some way I felt like updating this, since I feel I did not make my primary level as effectively as I needed to. So, think about a video game character, like Mario. By interacting with the sport, we can test how excessive he can bounce, how lengthy does it take him to succeed in full operating pace, what sorts of enemies he can stomp on and which he cannot, and so forth. Since Mario is only a program running on our computer systems / consoles, we will learn all that he can do at any second. His soar peak is a relentless, so we will theoretically calculate whether or not he can hit some block, or in how much time (in-recreation frames) a sure enemy will reach us. Greater than that - by understanding the particulars of the game, we are able to decide what's the very best course of action 5 levels down the road.

That is, in truth, how extraordinarily precise speedruns are created. For simple games like Super Mario Bros, they're already very optimized, nearly all the way down to a single step. But the identical rules apply to even complex video games like JRPGs. Picking up a sure item early on can permit you to do one thing 2 hours later. Learning a sure talent that's weak at the start can allow you to kill the ultimate boss in one hit. Running from a battle can set a RNG-dependent variable to a certain optimal value, and so on. To a daily participant, these methods may appear stupid in the brief time period, however they finalize in the very best route ultimately. It isn't nearly speedruns, but any form of challenge runs, etc. will require deep data and long term evaluation of the game mechanics to carry out.

Now what if I told you that actuality is the video game in query? Imagine - your location is already known by your smartphone, or automotive, or an online of CCTV, or a combination of these. Your deepest darkest needs are recognized by your search engines, your network of mates by the social media companies, and so on. Just this alone allows huge data, prediction and management talents (this has been described in the earlier sections). But imagine we go deeper with microchips, thought readers, smart cities and stuff like that. With increasing expertise, we become extra just like the video recreation character.

To reach that level, we require three issues. First is the expertise that allows us exact sufficient data collection. Second is powerful computer systems that allow calculations fast enough to foretell outputs primarily based on inputs lengthy ahead in time (what chess engines already do, but in a way more difficult system). The third is the technology that allows us to push switches - the best way a keyboard or joystick does in a video sport device. See, we're nonetheless physical beings, dependent on issues like genes expressing themselves, neurons firing, hormones getting into a cell to cause certain changes, etc. All of this could possibly be theoretically controlled by technology. Even now, with the relatively easy switches that we now have, we will already cause depression in social media users by exhibiting them certain stories. We are able to get individuals to purchase issues because of AI-determined direct commercials, and so forth. Imagine if we get down to the level of the cell!

And the elites are absolutely working on such a expertise as we communicate. I mean, what do you suppose the mRNA vaccines are? Now I assume a few of this may very well be used positively, but it surely one way or the other by no means is in the present world, so it's a idiot's dream. The principle point is, we will lose our humanity either means, when the evaluation and management potential reaches Mario's degree. We must both decide to inhibit such a know-how, or give up our humanity, since e.g mendacity won't be attainable with neuron entry. Hey, perhaps you suppose that people will decide to surrender superior expertise. Forget about it, Ted Kaczynski has lengthy disproved such a notion - expertise develops just about by itself, with out regard to human hopes and desires.

And for this reason we want the physical infrastructure quickly. If the world is controlled by evil actors (because it is correct now) and they've all this capability (which we don't), including direct cell access, God help us. The higher the know-how, the larger the power difference between us and the elites. Resistance won't be possible anymore when expertise reaches such a stage (which I'd guess takes not more than a few a long time). Imagine them being ready to indicate a graph of your most likely movements in accordance with the data they have already got, in actual time, and use it against you. How can you resist, when the computer systems can predict what you are going to do on Level 6 of the reality game - and push a switch to deny or change it? You won't ever do anything apart from what the elites (or the AI, if it is given control and goes rogue) allow. And for the reason that technological development won't stop, we have to take over right now.

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