Surveillance Capitalism

Imagine a world where many of your daily activities are constantly monitored and evaluated: what you buy online; where you are at any given time; who your friends are and what you said to them, and what you're searching for on Google (what you're thinking). It's not hard to picture this world, because you're already living in it. Online monopolies like Google and Facebook, both of which were funded at startup by U.S. Inteligence agencies [through front companies like In-Q-Tel] are collecting this data on you right now. Go a step further. Imagine a world where all of this information about you is digested by AI, and all of your behaviors are rated as either positive or negative by the government, and then all of that information is distilled into a single number, a "Social Score," which would tell everyone whether or not you're a "Good Citizen." That world is not far off, folks. It's being built right before your very eyes.