Voluntary (self-) #surveillance within one’s own four walls was yesterday: the “ #smart #city ” of today and tomorrow includes an impressive repertoire of sensor #technologies to not only meticulously record and monitor who is where and with whom, but also to control the movements and actions of the city’s inhabitants with subtle and less subtle methods, to direct and manipulate them.
But how can an entire city be controlled? Where conventional methods of architecture, police work, psychiatry, prison #society, schools, education, etc. reach their limits, information #technology opens up new, previously unknown possibilities. And the controlled? They let themselves be sold (literally) as progress (which perhaps it is, but there is nothing inherently positive about progress), as a solution to their problems.
That’s right: all this only works if the #internet is available everywhere. And if I already have access to the Internet, I might as well take advantage of all the other services #cyberspace has to offer. Never again do I have to waste my time. When I take the subway to work, it doesn’t cost me any more time: I can read the news, stream the latest episode of my favourite series, keep in touch with my friends via Whatsapp, take pictures for Instagram, and so on. And because it’s so easy, I never have to feel bored again.
My #life has become the epitome of a controlled existence. My actions have not only become predictable, they are no longer even mine. Is this what I once dreamed of my life to be?
Even if I don’t carry around my own bug with the practical touch display, thanks to countless cameras and other sensors I can hardly take a step in this city any more without where I am going being recorded. Even if I haven’t welcomed the smartphone-independent private spying program “Alexa” into my home, don’t own any “smart” ovens, TVs, fridges, etc., it’s enough that my neighbour or my friends own such devices.
The technocrats’ calculation works: once they have managed to get a certain amount of #spying devices into circulation, they are able to control all people, regardless of whether they (willingly) share their vision or not
That’s the reason for the development of #5G, but also why tech bigwigs like Elon #Musk (the nutcase who wants to colonise Mars to make humanity a “transplanetary species” – no joke, that’s his motivation!) or #Amazon boss #Bezos and others are working on launching thousands of satellites into space to provide high-speed global internet coverage – and presumably #spy on us in other ways as well. Several hundred of these space peeping toms are already watching us.
As a new mobile radio standard, 5G is supposed to bring faster internet for a multitude of devices. For example, 5G should be able to address up to around 100 billion mobile devices at the same time. That is an average of 12.5 devices per person walking the earth. And they should all be able to exchange data at 50 MBit/s to 2 GBit/s. Why?
Well, the good news is that many people seem to be becoming aware of this situation, perhaps they have always been aware of it, but now many seem to no longer want to be silent, no longer want to be pushed around and choose to attack instead of shouting out their disagreement into the infinite spheres of the digital where it eventually dies away (unheard).
Almost daily I receive news that somewhere in the world a 5G radio mast, or any radio mast at all, has been torched, blown up, felled or otherwise destroyed.
