You Want a Picture of the Future? Imagine a Boot Stamping on Your Face

http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/07/05/you-want-a-picture-of-the-future-imagine-a-boot-stamping-on-your-face/
Date Written:  2017-07-05
Publisher:  Counterpunch
Year Published:  2017
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX21204

The author explains why the dystopian future dreamed up by such authors as George Orwell, Ray Bradbury and Margaret Atwood has already arrived.

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Excerpt: Incredibly, as the various nascent technologies employed and shared by the government and corporations alike -- facial recognition, iris scanners, massive databases, behavior prediction software, and so on -- are incorporated into a complex, interwoven cyber network aimed at tracking our movements, predicting our thoughts and controlling our behavior, Spielberg's unnerving vision of the future is fast becoming our reality.