Today electronic surveillance cameras are obsequiously placed everywhere. Recording all our activities. On top of that millions of smart phones are capturing our images almost round the clock being artified by Instagram. All this too is being stored in the cavernous bowels of the Cloud which like Big Brother is watching every move of us a la Truman Show style.
All our calls are being recorded, every email, message and social network post is being saved for posterity so that it can be analysed anytime. Our daily movements are being tracked from the mobiles and car gps systems. Google knows more about us, our preferences, searches, chats, friends, predilections, hobbies, etc than even ourselves. With their mega algorhytmic analytic tools, Google mows us more intimately than even our Mothers or partners.
Increasingly houses are becoming intelligent. All the consumer durables, the electric and electronic systems, computers, cars, food providers, etc will be in synch and human will not have to do menial tasks like buying vegetables, toiletry, groceries, etc. drones will deliver the automated orders. Seamless payments will be made from the bank accounts.
All this presages the Age of Singularity. As Kurzweil as predicted that by 2029 counters will surpass human beings in intelligence. And by 2045 the age of Singularity will be ushered in where all human decisions will be taken in the Cloud. Truly the dehumanisation of the human race will have been completed.
This will be the lifestyle of the mid and upper classes. The lower classes will be largely outside the pale of this rarified digital existence. This 80% of the population will still be the tiling classes doing all the dirty physical work so that the neo digitariti can lead their vacuous lives of pleasure while the cyber network takes all their decisions.
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