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I guess they won't be satisfied until we are all wearing mechanical suits that will prevent us from doing anything "illegal!"
or have cameras in your own house monitoring your every move. like that dropout/collegehumor skit, where republicans have cameras in every move to monitor as a "thought" police.
Remember the stories about how wifi does a good job of telling where people are in the house? They might already be on that way.
That is just the start. Next: they want predictive AI to predict every aspect of your life.
After that, they will figure out how to manipulate the WiFi, to control your behavior subtly.
Then, comes make you do crimes, just to punish you for them.
I feel like we might as well just shoot right to the 1984 reference
Or just electro shock collars
You guys get shock collars? We get the kind that explodes your head.