According to the guy that founded the program, "‘Aadhaar [a program where 1B people in India had retinal and thumbprint scans] scares the daylights out of me. You wouldn’t have wanted to deploy Aadhaar in Rwanda a few years ago. It would be a very efficient way of killing people. A centralised biometric identity system, if it falls into the wrong hands, is a weapon.’ The author of the article (founder of "ID2020") is also the protagonist, referred to in the 3rd person. She just resigned this week, if anyone is looking to get into the Panopticon business.
The WEF, of the "in the future, you will own nothing and be happy. . . " variety, will one day each wake up under a tree and, after surviving the elements of the night before, be wholly occupied by the thought that armed and fatal conflict will be required to protect any of the meager proceeds of their day's forage and hunt, while they seek a hiding place for the oncoming night.
ReplyDeleteSee, I can prophesize too.
The future is what is where the left begs for death.