September 15, 2018

Total Surveillance Society, Internet of Things, Smart Cities September 15, 2018

AT&T Is Rolling Out 5G To Five Additional American Cities

At last count, the major telecom carriers are working on 5G rollout in about 50 cities throughout America, including some second tier cities like Waco, Texas and Sacramento, California. The big surge of mass installation should be fully underway by mid-2019. This is not about cell phones, but rather factories, autonomous vehicles, ubiquitous collection of data from sensors, surveillance and Smart City technology.

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Total Surveillance Society, Police State September 15, 2018

Google’s Prototype For China Searches Links To Phone Numbers

Forget do no evil. Google has joined the Dark Side in China. The Chinese version of its search engine, code-named Dragonfly, will match searches with phone numbers, giving Technocrats instant knowledge of your every move on the Internet.

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4th Industrial Revolution September 15, 2018

Silicon Valley’s Futile Search For Utopia Via The ‘Perfect Algorithm’

Human programmers produce human algorithms after their own kind, with prejudices and belief structures stemming from their creators. If the 'creator' is searching for Utopia, the programs will ultimately reflect that. Technocrats suffer from the terminal intellectual disease of groupthink.

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