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You may think this guy is a bit over the top, and some of his notions may not come to pass exactly as stated. But this article definitely qualifies for the title, "The Most Disturbing Presentation of the Year."
Question authority, before it questions you. How do you know, that you know, what you know?
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Blocked where I live, but this one is't (if it's indeed the same): http://youtu.be/DLwskDkDPUEEdit: nice talk, would make a good Stanislaw Lem novel
The opposite of hatred is love; the opposite of tyranny is love; the opposite of censorship is love; the opposite of evil is love; the opposite of politics is love; the opposite of war is love; the opposite of god is love.–– Salman RushdieBroadly speaking, it is held that getting money is good and spending money is bad. Seeing that they are two sides of one transaction, this is absurd; one might as well maintain that keys are good, but keyholes are bad. Whatever merit there may be in the production of goods must be entirely derivative from the advantage to be obtained by consuming them. –Bertrand RussellNever believe a liar. Papa, angry people burn our home.
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The guys pretty poor at public speaking, but yea that is the talk excerpted in the article, I would recommend watching at least part 2 on You Tube which includes more of the basis for why what he is saying is a very real danger.
Question authority, before it questions you. How do you know, that you know, what you know?
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Just thinking out loud, a very troubling nightmarish scenario. Points for conforming our behavior to what? What the government wants us to do? What corporations want us to do? There have always been inducements to act in conformity to certain goals, mostly cultural. Is the technology described anything more than a new tool to accomplish that end? All the talk about "sensors" is enough to set off alarms louder than sirens in the auto-destruct scene of Alien. The speaker doesn't address the flip side of the question: If there will be rewards to change our behavior, will there be punishments for failing to change? I hope the future he describes is nothing more than "a mote to trouble the mind's eye," or "a fragment of an underdone potato."
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There will always be people who blindly follow the governments and corporations (or do they just follow those who give them food, wine and entertainment?)
And there will always be people who do not.
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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Bother. I'm in and out. 
"Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits." - Satchel Paige
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