By the end of the Olympic games, we'll know whether the Chinese government's unprecedented application of state-of-the-art digital technology to Orwellian social control can actually work. WHAT IF THE EXPERIMENT SUCCEEDS?
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Regretfully, people are sheep. the majority will do as told and happily look the other way. UK citizens can´t go anywhere without being filmed. US Citizens got it worse with your lovely president & crew writing history as they please and imposing whatever crazy new control law they cap pass. Has anyone done anything about it ? No, becasue they are scared of the big bad wolf they´ve been told is around the corner so they feel the ilussion of safety trough those control methods. Sadly I predict this to be only th ebeggining.
A friend of mine told me that actually, Singapore has already implemented the vision you were writing about. This friend working in the upper echelons of government was invited over to a colleague's office during a break where as an example of what they can do, they listed his movements and people he had associated with in some detail. (for instance at 3:30 pm X entered store Y, left at 3:43 pm, entered store Z at 3:45 pm, met person A, purchased B, C and D for $$$ etc etc)
They apparently have integrated their various systems into a very powerful unified system, able to track movements and activities at a few keystrokes. I won't give the name of my source.
“….You see control can never be means to any practical end…. It can never be a means to anything but more control….
William Burroughs was right then, and he's right here. Now.
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