The economic system of Technocracy demands that no person can be left out. Thus, the global initiative to remove cash from society is not surprising, but it is facing stiff citizen resistance wherever it is being pushed.
If data can be pumped into your brain, then your personal sensory data can be pumped out... just like the scenario in the upcoming Channing Powell series, The Feed. However, just because scientists say something is going to happen doesn't mean it is really going to happen.
Cities left in the lurch are wondering what happened to the 100RC initiative. Resilience is prescribed in Sustainable Development Goal #11: "Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable."
While science fiction is typically futuristic, The Feed is based on currently developing technology designed to use brain implanted chips to interface with the Internet. Some are already comparing The Feed to Nineteen Eighty Four and Brave New World.
Cities potentially have significant clout to change the 5G landscape, but are typically too timid to do so. Most lay off decisions to Federal and State regulations. Meanwhile, 5G companies have become schoolyard bullies by threatening endless lawsuits.
Nations are passing laws that conflict with other nations and the result will be 'nationalized data' similar to the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell's dystopian book, Nineteen Eighty Four. Further splintering of the Internet is inevitable.
After boldly denying before Congress that they don't manually manipulate search results, Google has been busted again for lying. In fact, they DO manually skew search results when it suits their leftist views and they were caught red-handed.
Technocrat scientists view humans as an animal species that is on the same level as monkeys - just containers of atoms and molecules - so there is no ethical problem with inserting human genes into them.
A isolated silo of data is unacceptable to the Technocracy mind, so the rush is on to develop ways to integrate disparate data systems into one. This is more easily said than done, but data is the life blood of Technocracy.
Online shopping behemoths like Amazon are completely disrupting brick-and-mortar retail. As personal shopping data is harvested and analyzed, it is weaponized and turned against you to manipulate further buying decisions.