“COVID-19 provided the largest-scale stress test of digital movement control in human history, and the results exceeded the architects’ most optimistic projections.Within months, governments worldwide deployed QR health passes determining where you could go, what you could do, and whom you could see.”
The 15 Minute Gulags
They promised you cleaner air and cozy cafés but what they’re building is a digital gulag. Beneath the glossy language of “sustainability” and “smart cities,” the 15-Minute City hides the final piece of a total control grid: a world where your movement, money, and identity are algorithmically policed. This essay rips apart the utopian veneer to reveal the dystopia underneath, where convenience becomes confinement, climate policy becomes population management, and the digital prison arrives not with sirens, but with a notification.
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