YOU'RE NOW PUBLIC
A couple of months ago I had the distinct privilege of speaking at the Ron Paul Institute in Washington D.C. The political wonks there told me this upcoming election would be determined by 17 counties in 10 states with 80,000 votes the determining number.
Further, the bean counters in politics can now access so much private information they can virtually navigate each address and determine if those people will vote and how they will vote. They can look at your spending, your YouTube activity and know house 23 will vote for Kamala, house 24 will not vote, house 25 will vote for Trump, etc.
Your smartphone listens to what you say. In fact, with AI now I just heard on the news that the traffic cameras posted at stoplights to aid law enforcement are now a gold mine of license tags which give name, address, and can be linked in to all internet activity, from phone calls to Google searches.
Three Mile Island is being resurrected to pay for a data center; that's how much power these AI centers need. One data center drawer, about the size of a suitcase that will fit in the overheads of an airplane, requires more electricity than 4 electric vehicles. And Nvidia has 70,000 of these drawers on order.
The pure power requirement to amass the detailed data now collectible via the "internet of things" is mind boggling. Think about all the decisions you make--where to go, what to buy, who to befriend, etc. Now think about the brain capacity to put all that choice for every person in the world into a platform to be cross-referenced and used by others.
"Find me all the people in Phoenix that buy Huggies diapers on Thursdays" is now possible. "Find me all the people in the U.S. that give money to churches." "Find me everyone who purchased rib eye steaks in March from farmer X."
Your phone is linked; your car computers are linked; your social media is linked. Making sense of all this electronic information requires a brain with massive computer power which is literally over-running our power grid. The crush to collect data and use it for marketing, politics, regulation, and investigation is coming on faster than the power grid can create energy to run it all.
With ubiquitous facial recognition and eye-prints, sci-fi is now us. I don't use GPS for anything, still relying on paper maps. I'm a guy who actually doesn't mind stopping and asking directions if I'm lost. Used to be I could pull into a gas station and the attendants always knew how to tell me to get to the place, which was always fairly close but I'd just missed a street. Now, nobody knows where anything is even a block away. "What's the address?" they ask, pulling their smartphone out of their pocket. They don't know what's north, south, east or west; whether the path is generally downhill or uphill, or if their place of work is on high ground or low ground.
The powers and agendas behind this data cloud do not believe in compost; they don't believe in liberty; they don't believe in health freedom; they don't believe in keeping your own money, low taxes, and jab-free cows. I don't have a smart phone; I'm still on flip, no messages, no texts. But I'm feeling caught up in a data internet-of-things tornado that is becoming more and more difficult to ignore. It's like being caught in a rip-tide. I'm swimming as hard as possible, but can't seem to make shore.
Do you share my revulsion toward this development, and if so, what one thing have you done to extricate yourself from its clutches?
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