The end of freedom
Freedom, the dream that has inspired countless individuals, cultures, beliefs and civilisations over millennia, will soon be gone. Forever.
In just a few years every person on the planet will be under constant surveillance, each minute of each day of their lives, from birth unto death.
Their every word, facial expression, keystroke, expenditure and act will be automatically stored in vast quantum repositories, searchable by whomever has the power to do it, government, oligarch, corporation or villain.
Nothing you do or say will go unnoticed by the vast banks of artificial intelligence that will be primed to seek out dissidence and keep you in line – or make you a compliant victim of consumer culture. You will have little choice over who governs you, what you buy or do. You will be a tiny cog in a vast global consumption and obedience machine, unconsciously following the electronic bidding of your overlords. What you regard as free choices will, in fact, be carefully embedded in your consciousness by super-analytical AI that re-interprets your preferences and inclinations more persuasively than you can.
The key instruments of oppression will be quantum computers and artificial intelligence – devices so powerful, fast, intelligent, capacious and searchable they can store and retrieve all the data, collected on any individual, in milliseconds.
The scientists who work on quantum computers and AI sing their praises – all the wonderful benefits this astonishing technology can deliver to us. But so too did the first nuclear scientists in the 1920s and 30s, before they built a device that could end human existence. QC AI has exactly the same flaw: misused, it can abolish freedom and human society as we know it. They both have many dangerous vulnerabilities. (See, for example, the Forbes Technology Council.)
Take closed-circuit TV and facial recognition (FR) as........
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