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TODAY. Digital confusion

Yes, it’s a confusing and scary picture isn’t it ? (from What is the Digital Prison?)

Well, today I’m finding quite a few articles about money – how cash will become obsolete, and every financial transaction will be done digitally. And I took a 6 year-old child to the zoo, where you can’t even give a child some money to buy an orange drink, or anything – every purchase must be made digitally, by card.

I thought that this transfer away from cash would take ages, and perhaps not happen at all. But now I’m not so sure.

We love to hate China. China keeps surveillance on every individual, on every aspect of their lives. But the West is now going the same way.

The cashless thing is just one part of it. G20 Announces Plan To Impose Digital Currencies And IDs Worldwide. Elon Musk’s X venture – leading us into a digital prison?

It is indeed a scary thing.

But what complicates it for me, and adds to the confusion, – is considering the sources of my information.

I mean, I had comfortable consistent ideas about whom to take seriously, and whom not. That meant, for example, – Democrats good, Republicans bad. Twitter good, Elon Musk’s X bad. Left wing better than Right wing.

But it’s not like that any more. Social media of all kinds is suspect – with many biases, and no fact-checking. And the motive of every platform seems to be the encouragement of profit-making. Of course Artificial Intelligence is adding to the murk.

September 16, 2023 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina's notes