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The UK ID card scheme is heading our way. Now, the next phase, discussed separately but a part of the same design for organs of the State to evolve into Big Brother, is being discussed in Parliament
Let’s talk about these two apparently loosely related components for what they really are. The databases of identity and communications are deeply interrelated from a Government perspective.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are now capable of fishing in this data pool and cross-referencing the most innocuous of details and then pulling you into a Police cell because your behaviour is suspect Winston Smith.
The film Minority Report is now barely science fiction due to the increasingly predictive capabilities of artificial intelligence and the ongoing development of computers on which it runs.
AI is fuzzy and error prone like the human brain, but nevertheless powerful in predicting behaviours in complex systems (society) in the same way that you get a hunch, an intuitive feeling that a person you are talking with is lying.
The State loves this kind of tool, it tells them which individuals to trust and which individuals to intern. Hitler’s IBM supplied card indexing system of the German population was such a tool but stone age in comparison with our information age technology.
Do you visit an ‘alternative’ bookstore or support Greenpeace, and go to demos? Watch your back. I predict this.
And I feel… more than a little peeky.
Watch the End of Suburbia and see how you feel
Gordon Brown, the UK’s ‘leader’ is currently floundering as we enter the years of the Perfect Storm. He has no answers, he is not proacting, he is showing clearly that he has no clue how to discuss with his nation the problems that face us all:
Military crisis
Environmental crisis
Financial crisis
Food crisis
Oil crisis
And the biggest crisis of all: These five layered and forward-feeding factors that will end the world as we know it. Watch Naomi Klein (author of No Logo; Shock Doctrine) on the choice that is currently facing Americans.
This same choice will face Europeans as the situation here quickly follows that in the US. We may not be such a suburban culture as North America, but our way of life is nevertheless still predicated on what the philosopher Derrick Jensen terms a Culture of Make Believe.
We will be faced with an End of Suburbia and social and economic change on the same scale as North America, culturally different on the surface but no less massive. The five horses of the combined emergent property known as the apocalypse, the five factors of the Perfect Storm, are now upon us. Rome is burning and we are down at the forum watching Big Brother. Just at the moment when UK Parliament is considering building Big Brother’s brain. How beautifully ironic.
