The Borg
At the moment people run the world, but machines are
increasingly being used to sort and
correlate all the data
available and on every person on the planet. I liken this to the 1940’s, when
machines produced by IBM, where used by the Germans to
more efficiently conduct the holocaust. People have somewhat become nothing more
than mere numbers and on a very personal level I feel it more than most, being
unemployed gives you a very unique perspective, you get to see how the system
really works. At my current level in society, I am one social order above being
a criminal. The truth is, I am just like most people, just doing my best to
survive, living would be better, but surviving is all I can afford.
The organising of people into tightly controlled manageable
structures, via work, pay structure, social standing or pecking order, is great
for the people at the top. I recently seen a
politician on Net TV,
spouting the usual rubbish,
telling people how he is better than his opposite number in another political
party, followed by the usual dribble about his party being better than any
other. The public are so pissed off with this, most don’t even bother voting,
partly because it’s like voting for which child you would like to run the
country. The truthful answer is, probably none of
them, at least that’s what I think, the silent majority are thinking.
Smart people selectively
watch TV and most of us know that we are guided, controlled and generally only
presented with the options that are in line with well established guidelines,
laid down by the power elite. I say Mark Thomas
for world president or how about the Dali Lamar, they've got to be better than
Bush Jnr (you can almost see the strings). And after watching the
century of the self, we should
all know what modern democracy is really about?
Thank God for the like's of John Pilger
and Michael Moore (its good to hear a
different side).
Big business has always
tried to whip the global workforce into a frenzy of consumerism,
but everybody knows that the worlds resources using
current day manufacturing techniques, cannot sustain
this type of consumerism on a global scale, especially
with the materialistic nature of the human species. That said, using
nanotechnology should help us gain a nearly 100% clean and cost free
manufacturing base, allowing us all to share in the
wealth, as some politicians would say, but I don't truly
believe, that most of them have honestly thought through, all of nanotech's
possible implications.
The current sharing of the world’s wealth,
sees me doing my best to survive on £53 a week and Bill Gates not being able to
spend the daily accumulated
P = C e rt
on his ?? billion dollar’s.
Is right of course, that’s just the way things are,
and so it will continue until the day I die?
I wrote this book to hopefully help myself get out of the
box and hopefully allow
anybody who reads this, to better comprehend the box that they may also f
themselves in. The box is set to
tighten soon, with certain open government policies directly impacting on the
average person once again. The classic big brother scenario is about to be
unleashed in a very real way. The introduction of networks linking government
and banking databases to some degree, will mean that
the moment that you present some form of ID to a bank or other such
organisation, then that bank or organisation will know almost everything about
you. It’s already being planned
and implementation is probably not far off.
The current state of the world’s economy is most felt, as
always, by the people at the bottom of society, the current smoke and mirrors
campaign is to blame things on terrorists or illegal immigrants, I find this
quite funny. You see in the 1950’s
or was it in the 60’s, Britain had so many jobs available, that they
actually advertised in other countries to recruit a
large enough workforce. So the UK will import and export
people when it suits the government of the day, hypocrisy is alive and well, in
high places. Immigrant workers are welcomed, if they are willing to do the jobs,
the locals don't want to do and at a cheaper price, not to mention the irony of
an old imperial power, built on the
backs of slaves, complaining about foreigners coming in and taking over etc?
The world’s workforce is being forced to downsize or work for
less at least within certain sectors for two main reasons, global competition
and smarter technology. Maybe
the powers that be think that
if we all use smart cards rather than cash, it will
allow every transaction to be monitored and therefore taxed,
thus allowing the system to triumph. The black
market is currently helping to sustain some of the most needy in society. This
may not be legal to some degree, but ethically it is the only way some people in
society can make ends meet. The state has a habit of thinking that it can meet
everybody’s needs, that’s if everybody plays by the rules. If everybody who is
capable actually gets a job and pays fair taxes into the system, then the system
will work and be able to provide all the necessary services. As I’ve said
before, what jobs and why should everybody become a corporate entity, what ever
happened, to individualism (sorry
didn't mean to spread such a radical and dangerous concept). Of course
the people at the top don't mind us all being individuals, it stops us
organizing and keeps us all scrambling to get ahead of each other, dreaming of
becoming as rich as the people, we normally find ourselves complaining about,
just remember the more money you make, the more taxes you will pay. so you'll
never win.
The current state of play is, you’re either wealthy or you
work, if you don’t work then you can’t pay the bills and if you don’t pay the
bills, then eventually you will be made to go to jail, great system for the
rich. Become a team player and you will be rewarded my son, bollocks, you are
more likely to be exploited used and then spat out at retirement age,
I’ve seen that happen.
You could save for years, then watch some fat bloke fall of a boat taking your
pension with him?
So while I could be made to slave away in some
dead end job, I could be forced to watch my predictions
come true and then listen to all those working class drones around me,
say "Hey Hal (nick name) have you seen what’s going on
with this virtual reality / A.I., nanotech, global warming
stuff, it’s
really scary?". Yep I wrote a book about it
years ago, but only me and the top A.I. guy in the world read it?
I think,
the powers that be are living
in the past and they are about to be bitten in the arse, by environmental and
technological problems, far beyond theirs or anybody else’s control
or imagination.
Anyway the next step is probably for us all to be implanted
with net devices, (see
Verichip
& the new
digital flesh), capable of keeping track of
us all and transmitting
everything we do and say, all feeding back into the great machine.
We could all end up, as just service engineers and data collectors for
it. (Check out BT’s soul catcher
concept). I can imagine a time when all babies will be
genetically engineered and come complete with their own built in IP addresses.
The powers that be,
will probably sell us all on this type of thing, by
telling us it will lower crime, Mr Gates himself, has already affirmed that
implants are
inevitable?
Eventually I foresee a piece of software capable of being
installed on some very futuristic portable hardware, that will contain all of
the information mankind can put into it. This I foresee happening in one way or
another, simply due to developments in processing, compression and storage
systems, all with unimaginable capabilities. These
developments should allow everybody to carry around with them, the sum total of
human knowledge. Along with smart systems capable of explaining all that
information and in a format that will best suit the individual,
and so, the machines become the teachers?
By this time, technology should have evolved to allow our
minds to be
plugged directly into some type of software
holding device, allowing us all to know and understand everything. Add this to
increasingly sophisticated and
discreet
wireless communications, that could be hidden or implanted in our clothing or
ourselves and there
you have it, electronic telepathy, between both machines and each other -
sharing every
thought and mental image with everyone else connected to the network,
did anybody say borg or even
worse the thought police?, its the
P2P of the future.
Of course with this level of sophistication, the human body may no longer
be seen as useful, as we all
upload our minds
into the great machine?
As Stephen Hawking said, we may have to
merge with machines
or suffer extinction, it has already
started, with
electronics already having been
implanted in
some of us, so we could all soon be on a very slippery slope. In the near
future, I believe we will see implanted earpieces that can receive calls, then
implanted microphones capable of voice communication with PDA phones etc, then
permanent connection to the net, soon, we may all begin to
merge seamlessly into the future that many
cyberneticists dream about. A
transhumanist
society, in which we all end up as better beings, each of us
electronically linked
and communicating with each other, evolutionary behaviour dictated not by common
sense, but by market driven realities. The
brain machine interfaces are coming
and we could all soon be turning ourselves into the borg?
It's comical
when you see most of the legal system trying to keep
up with and tame
technological developments.
The system can't react fast enough, and if its
having a problem now, then just wait till it has to deal with some of the coming
problems highlighted in this ebook. The
virtual lawyers will be making a fortune, but I can
just imagine, judges sitting in council chambers reading Windows for dummies,
whilst ringing tech support lines asking questions like, what's deep linking and
do you think I should rule against it or what?
Just remember what happened to
Kevin Mitnick, I.T. ignorant judge meets
a case he doesn't understand, so excepts whatever the government say's.
