I have been trying to make myself like the line from “Mission Impossible”: “Anonymity is like a warm blanket.”
I can see the borg, but I’ve put up blackout curtains and whatnot.
In work, you have to try to stay ahead of the machines, however, so you are not a slave to them.
Back In 1970, former National Security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote in Between Two Ages, that:
‘By the year 2018, technology will make available to the leaders of the major nations, a variety of techniques for conducting secret warfare, of which only a bare minimum of the security forces need be appraised. One nation may attack a competitor covertly by bacteriological means, thoroughly weakening the population (though with a minimum of fatalities) before taking over with its own armed forces. Alternatively, techniques of weather modification could be employed to produce prolonged periods of drought or storm…”
In this same book we also find this quote:
“The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities.”