Preparing for the future is an increasingly daunting task, because the future includes a human that is a sum of data points fitting perfectly inside transactional algorithms.
Imagine being a young individual who drives a Ford and likes to shop at WholeFoods. When you go to purchase an airplane ticket you'll be presented with a different price than if you drove a Mercedes and ate at fancy restaurants. More so, pulling into a gas station, a WhoFi system will instantly identify you, provide rewards, and dynamically modify your pricing. Out of habit you'll buy a soda along with fueling gas. By the time you get home, your medical score will drop a point and your insurance premium will respond accordingly.
Upset, you'll complain to your friends over a chat and by posting a frustrated meme on your social media profile. This will trigger a social score fluctuation while your account will be flagged. Next time you enter a store, you'll be prompted to improve your score by accepting a new line of credit with higher interest rates. Your employer also will be notified of your universal ID score and determine that you need additional training in order to qualify for future promotions.
Sounds outrageous?
Imagine no more. This technology already exist, is being tested, and in many cases implemented.
Within a few years at the most, individuality will be entirely commodified. Your likes and dislikes, your relationships and cultural preferences, your daily routines and habits, and eventually everything that makes you who you are will become a trackable commodity open for business.
Your life? A traded commodity.
Your value? A number lending itself to speculative algorithms.
Your freedom? Ranging between none to some, depending on your personal ID score.
Your future? A blip in a vast digital virtualverse.
Your personal and most intimate life? An automated song playing in an infinite noisy background.
Your past? Forgotten.
Your present? A continuous chase and struggle.
Your future? A token.
As we approach a fully digitalized society and a tokenized individual existence, the breakdown of what it means to be a human will accelerate from generation to generation until its final and ultimate destination: a total collapse of individuality and the emergence of a digital collective reality designed to dictate and control most of civilization's processes and functionaility.
At that point, humanity's vulnerability will be at its peak, ripe for self-destruction due to a fatal loss of embodied knowledge and skills combined with a lethal dependency on a technology capable to turn off - on a global scale - the most vital systems required for our survival.
The Endgame is an upgraded civilization, not larger than 1B souls or so, if that.
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