This is creepy indeed. And it seems to be silently working its way into our lives.

This whole explosion in surveillance seems to have started with 9/11. We lost most all our rights to privacy after that (at least in public places), and that's just what we experience. Imagine what's going on behind the scenes.

These big shifts seem to follow big negative events. So, 9/11 brought the surveillance state to the west along with an explosion in relevant technologies (i.e., facial recognition). 2008, for which not a single person went to prison, brought us Bitcoin.

We're on the cusp of another socio-economic earthquake that has the potential to increase war and public unrest. I'm wondering what will come out of it besides the predictable human suffering. Will the great recession we're heading into lead to central bank digital currencies in the west, such as China is now testing? As I've pointed out before, such a currency would be the killer app of surveillance and control.