Everyone talks about inflation and how $100 today has the value of only $5 one hundred years ago. Today you can buy a smartphone for $100 and have access to a camera, access to the music catalogue of the worlds greatest composers performed by the worlds greatest musicians, the ability to read every book ever written, the ability to communicate instantly with anyone, the ability to teleport digital value to anyone anywhere in the world and so much more. Good luck going back one hundred years and doing that with $5 or $5,000 or any amount of money. It is easy to imagine inflation into the future but it is hard to imagine deflationary abundance.

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Next on the list of companies pushing me into the surveillance dystopia is my gym. Today they told me that they will be moving away from the keytag barcode we use to get in and they will be requiring all members to take a photo of their face to identify themselves linked to the gyms app that we will have to have on our phones to get in to the gym. The barcode has been working for years. Why do they now need my biometrics? Why do I suddenly need an app? Everywhere I turn we are being pushed into a constant digital identification state of surveillance. View quoted note →