The wealth transfer during this lockdown/quarantine was not just money, it was data.
An unfathomable amount of data has been transferred to the tech world as a result of us being home, isolated, and most importantly vulnerable.
Think of the range of emotions and responses given in this time of social unrest, political upheaval, economic downturn, personal anxiety...to devices that are always monitoring our actions and responses.
The heads of Tech were all over this pandemic, because they needed massive data to sculpt this new* world they’re architecting. Sneaky bastids.
If there is nothing else we’ve seen in this time, it’s the consolidation of the tech world and the changing of policies on social media. whatever tf is coming *coughVRcough*, is about to give the tech godhead an immense amount of surveillance & control.
Simply put, the best way to predict the future is to build it.
I know we’re dealing with a lot now but look at the FUTURE of law enforcement as well as the budget increases towards upgrading military weaponry.
We’re in a very new era.
airspacemag.com/military-aviat…
Spotify is positioning itself as a media outlet and I hate it. Artists are always used as a gateway to some corporate takeover.
Facebook/Instagram trying to get well meaning, but terrified people to “register to vote this election” is a data grab as well.
Why, after the Cambridge Analytica-gate in 2016*, would we give Facebook any of our voting data?
The GOP & Democrats are given over to corporate power yes,
But every corporate power is given to consumer data, which these online platforms have successfully “harvested”.
I hate to think all the “social” events of this year were engineered for us to ellicit responses for data.
But,
You know...it’s 2020.
While there are laws changing in the corporeal space...there is a virtual space that has no written rules yet.
It’s the digital demiurge if you will.
Yeah, our “country” is corrupt...but remember the point of colonies is to feedback into larger systems.
protocol.com/facebook-overs…
There is nothing more ubiquitous on this earth than the internet. therefore, therefore the net has to be ubiqiutous.
Enter covid-19.
Do I believe it’s real? Yes.
Do I believe it’s being weaponized against us? Yes.
We’re being extorted in this reality and the next.
Capitalism isn’t dying, it’s expanding.
The same way Africa and the rest of the global south was carved up for its material resources, the digital “space” is being carved up, segmented, and extracted as well.
We are witnessing the underdevelopment of our future.
These platforms were built for the on the guise of “free speech”.
We built this era of products with user generated content... with our free speech.
And they found a way to monetize it.
And sell it back to us.
Wild.
We have been participating in a case study on exploitation.
If any of this is new to you, consider how modern science has built itself up...and who it’s original test subjects were/are.
If it looks like “history is repeating” it’s because the formula/algorithm continues to work and is adjusted for the current times.
Reverse engineer.
People have always been the economy.
Human capital stock & Human Resources.
Really think about those terms for a moment and why someone actually “employs” you.
Now think of the need for you, in a time of autonomous robots & ramped up automation...
I would implore all of us to sit and think about how valueable our communication is...and why we give it away freely.
I’m not Yang Gang, but @AndrewYang had some great points about us not receiving ANYTHING in return for our labor in the form of ideas & insights...via posting
Social media is nothing without our content & presence.
Spotify is nothing without our ear.
Innovation in tech becomes increasingly without our participation.
These folks aren’t smarter than us, they’ve just built something upon our desires.
We’ve seen this before.
Use your mind, pay attention, think of where this is going, and beat them there.
Studying Etymology + poetry + human coginition will change the way you view things.
Make a habit of tracing things back to their origin.
Words matter.
If I could recommend three things
Listen to Lupe Fiasco’s “streets on fire” and “the instrumental”.
And read “surveillance capitalism” by Shosana Zuboff.
If you’re interested in dialogue and discourse, my DM is always open.
Peace & #Choosewisely
Again.
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