I found the post very interesting, and there are those with a somewhat Luddite mentality when it comes to technology, but it really doesn’t matter if people like what’s going to happen, or if they don’t. Technology, for good or ill, will advance without anyone’s expressed approval.

I think the important thing is that society needs to focus on the fact that people should not be forced against their will to embrace tech they are opposed to. E.g., the Amish and Mennonite communities still shun certain conveniences, and although it might make their lives hard, it is not impossible.

However, I see this getting increasingly difficult as time moves forward and I think this is why it’s important that there good actors in the marketplace who are also creating competing tech which counters Orwellian tech. As far as artificially tapping into a state of transcendental meditation, that sounds like a blast to me.

Equally as fun, might be a machine that induces lucid dreaming. If someone like Mark Zuckerberg creates or owns these devices though, things could jump the shark very quickly. Currently, his ownership of oculus is giving him oodles and oodles of feedback from the cameras (sensors), microphones, and whatnot.

The internet of things will have microphones and cameras all over the place. They will watch our every move and feed it back to the tech companies to give to the government and sell to the highest bidder. As I type this, cable companies are coming out with remote controls that you can talk to now, which means they are listening and most likely sending this data back up the coaxial and to the cable company.

Perhaps Zuckerberg and silicon valley are doing us a favor in tipping their hand and getting creepy fast. They could have tried to slow boil us, but now the jig is up. So they either thought they won the game, or are desperate enough to win the next election that they showed their intentions early on.