Showing posts with label Alexa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alexa. Show all posts

Saturday, August 24, 2019

Who wants a universal basic income?




Or what's better known as money for nothing. Many Dem Socialists are proposing this sort of thing one way or another. Andrew Yang comes to mind since he wants give every household a thousand clams per month even if all you do is sit around in your graying BVDs playing video games (I actually like Yang because he sees the enormous potential of Bitcoin and the Block Chain...but I digress).

I'm not sure if a universal income will ever be possible or if it's even the right thing to do for America. Methinks it's just another way to pander for votes which in my mind anyway, means it's a way of making people subservient to the government. In other words, you become a slave without actually knowing it. This Libertarian author will have none of it, thank you very much.

So my guess is we never see a universal income (not without going broke anyway). But what if a mega-corporation like Amazon for instance, actually offered up a living wage to people who signed on for a program in which they agree, in writing, to only purchase Amazon products? It could happen I guess. It's precisely what happens in my new thriller Primary Termination in which people can receive a comfortable living wage so long as they purchase only Everest Corporation goods and services. The program is called the Everest Primary Program, and its advertising slogan is thus: Imagine, for the first time in your life, living entirely worry free.

The only catch is that if you're caught violating the terms and services of the Primary Program...if you purchase products not sold by Everest...your program will be terminated, and you might find yourself a slave locked up in a prison which doubles as an Everest fulfillment center. And don't think Everest won't know what you're buying, because it's AI Alexa-like machine, called Jacquie, knows all.

She is monitoring you 24/7.

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Saturday, August 17, 2019

Who can you trust anymore?



Or should I say, what can you trust these days?

If you own a smart home...if you converse with artificial intelligence in the form of Alexa or a Ring Doorbell, or a smart TV, or a smart whatever...chances are you are not being offered a service out of convenience (it's the natural inclination of human beings to take the easy, lazy way out when offered the chance, no matter the consequences), so much as you are being observed and studied.

Your personal data is being compiled, bit by bit, pixel by pixel (my coding and computer terminology might be off here, but bear with me). You are not flesh and bone to these devices. You are code. They know what you eat, drink, read, listen to, indulge in sexually, pray to or not pray to, and so much more.

One day, they will know more about you than you know about yourself. They will anticipate your every move. If for some reason, they come not to like you, or suspect the worst about you, they can work against you and at best, shut you out...imagine arriving home from work, the Ring Doorbell recognizes you, and decides to lock you out of your own castle. At worst, they will make you a slave.

You just might disappear one day, no questions asked.

Can it happen?

Maybe it already has.

I explore this very thesis in my brand new thriller, Primary Termination
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