Welcome to the Matrix: Enslaved by Technology and the Internet of Things

Welcome to the Matrix: Enslaved by Technology and the Internet of Things

By John W. Whitehead

January 07, 2015

There will come a time when it isn't Theyre spying on me through my phone anymore. Eventually, it will be My phone is spying on me. Philip K. Dick

If ever Americans sell their birthright, it will be for the promise of expediency and comfort delivered by way of blazingly fast Internet, cell phone signals that never drop a call, thermostats that keep us at the perfect temperature without our having to raise a finger, and entertainment that can be simultaneously streamed to our TVs, tablets and cell phones.

Likewise, if ever we find ourselves in bondage, we will have only ourselves to blame for having forged the chains through our own lassitude, laziness and abject reliance on internet-connected gadgets and gizmos that render us wholly irrelevant.

Indeed, while most of us are consumed with our selfies and trying to keep up with what our so-called friends are posting on Facebook, the megacorporation Google has been busily partnering with theNational Security Agency(NSA), thePentagon, and other governmental agencies to develop a new human species, so to speak.

In other words, Googlea neural network that approximates a global brainis fusing with the human mind in a phenomenon that is called singularity, and theyve hired transhumanist scientist Ray Kurzweil to do just that. Google will know the answer to your question before you have asked it, Kurzweil said. It will have read every email you will ever have written, every document, every idle thought youve ever tapped into a search-engine box. It will know you better than your intimate partner does. Better, perhaps, than even yourself.

But heres the catch: the NSA and all other government agencies will also know you better than yourself. As William Binney, one of the highest-level whistleblowers to ever emerge from the NSA said, The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control.

Science fiction, thus, has become fact.

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