"You had to live — did live, from habit that became instinct — in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized." — George Orwell, 1984
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It had the potential for disaster.
Early in the morning of Monday, December 15, 2020, Google suffered a major worldwide outage in which
all of its internet-connected services crashed, including Nest, Google Calendar, Gmail, Docs, Hangouts, Maps, Meet and YouTube.
The outage only lasted an hour, but it was a chilling reminder of how reliant the world has become on internet-connected technologies to do everything from unlocking doors and turning up the heat to accessing work files, sending emails and making phone calls.
A year earlier, a Google outage resulted in Nest users being unable to access their Nest thermostats, Nest smart locks, and Nest cameras. As
Fast Company reports, "This essentially meant that because of a cloud storage outage,
people were prevented from getting inside their homes, using their AC, and monitoring their babies."
Welcome to the Matrix.Twenty-some years after the Wachowskis' iconic film,
The Matrix, introduced us to
a futuristic world in which humans exist in a computer-simulated non-reality powered by authoritarian machines — a world where the choice between existing in a denial-ridden virtual dream-state or facing up to the harsh, difficult realities of life comes down to a blue pill or a red pill — we stand at the precipice of a technologically-dominated matrix of our own making.
We are living the prequel to The Matrix with each passing day, falling further under the spell of technologically-driven virtual communities, virtual realities and virtual conveniences managed by artificially intelligent machines that are on a fast track to replacing human beings and eventually dominating every aspect of our lives.Science fiction has become fact.
Comment: It is still unclear who will be in the White House, but it is very clear that criminal corporate interests are the main part of the Democratic party. And if their puppet Joe Biden is elected as a president, he will undoubtedly represent these criminal corporate interests, not the interests of American people.