Do you comply with the system, or do you head for the hills and join the resistance?

Already in the hills, but yes... I would be with the people and the resistance. Viva la freedom!!!!

Season 2 of the hills was sorta a let down man

It's possible. Tom Cruise ripped out his eyeballs to make it happen.

Ussrname relevant.

I used to think having a neuro interface would be amazing - but as there are always hackers better than you - firewalling your neural network would be impossible.

We will see :)

Maybe they will be read only, so hackers wouldn't have the ability to connect and corrupt the code. Sounds like a terribly dangerous time to live. one wrong move, and you are now part of a botnet. :)

I've always wondered, it is a cool username.

What about the problem of an EMP? Would make all that tech obsolete.

hmm, another wrinkle. I think you can harden circuitry to be EMP resistant, but great point.

Resistance. Only idots would consent to that garbage.

Not if its done slowly over long period of time and the people are sold on it being great...then theyll line up for the chip!!! Gotta have the chip!!

"I don't want a microchip"

"WTF are you a racist? Look everyone, this person is a sexist racist!"

Sad, but true. But there is an awakening happening and people are becoming more intelligent and hopefully coming to understand that a transhumanist society would have even more apparent and direct controllers possible and attached to it than this one (people that could directly influence human biology through technology - "hack" your body if it was indeed implanted with microchips).

I still have hope the awakening will be fruitful (and is already in many ways).

a sucker born every minute

Going to the mountains.

Even when Huxley outlined the plan in Brave New World they left people on the 'reservation' alone.

The real problem is that they will have to eliminate a huge chunk of the worldwide population in order to have this kind of control.

In the real world, they don't leave the people "off grid" alone. We are more like 1984

I could agree with that as well.

But I think there are some people who will always resist.

good thing they are perfecting automation and we have a huge unemployment crisis looming....

Exactly. Automation is the last obstacle. I'd say we have about 20 years max before they work on full-scale depopulation. If nature doesn't intervene before.

work on? theyve been working on that idea for a long time already

I'm sure some people probably have good plans in place for how to hypothetically get the whole population to half a billion, as noted on the Georgia Guidestones. Whether or not they have have ways to do so that won't destroy the planet or themselves is another issue. Perhaps technology had to catch up.

In the meantime, creating a nihilistic culture in the west and then exporting it to the rest of the world is doing an okay job at slowing down population growth in places like Europe and Japan. The 'Idiocracy' effect in the U.S. where driven, intelligent people have few to zero children while lower classes have more is creating a class that is easier to control.

Nevertheless the total world population has more than doubled since 1960. For Malthusian eugenecists this is a problem.

Its not really that hard. Seal bunker, turn off the power and wait.

Given my circumstance, I'd comply unfortunately.

IMHO we see early rumblings of this coming culture war at Burning Man, with the Sparkle Ponies (global party LED rave in the desert crowd) runs into a Darktard (no LED).

The SPs inevitably run into a pack of Darktards at night and the augmented humans sneer at the primitives, and vice versa.

Resistance, or dead.

You forgot about Carl's Jr and Gatorade being the only suppliers of food and beverages

Pretty sure Taco Bell wins the fast food wars.

You're confusing John Spartan with Not Sure. They were both frozen, yes... but one lived in a utopia-like future whereas the other one is probably among us, living in a dumb reality that gets dumber by the minute. Drink your electrolytes.

Thanks for the correction friend.

Be well.

Taco Bell was Demolition Man with Stallone. Gatorade, or thirsto or something like that was Idiocracy. "It's what cows/plants/whatever crave!"

You mean water, like, in the toilet? :)

Forget the microchip thing.

Mind/machine interfaces are a completely mature technology already, and you probably aren't aware of this unless you're involved in a related industry (like next gen VR), but it's totally wireless. No implants, nothing. Just really good motion tracking and very precise microwave brain imaging that has better range than your wifi and sees through walls.

I'm literally browsing reddit while connected to such a system right now. It's capable of both reading and augmenting your sensory perceptions (including traditionally considered totally internal sensations of thought) in a way that is amazing, but completely fucking terrifying to think about in the hands of corporatists.

See you all in hell!

Thanks for the correction friend.

Be well.

I think WalMart, Chevy, Target, Kohl's, etc. might have a small problem with that plan.

Definitely not Kohls. They're going under

And who is paying for all this? The people? Because I am betting once cashless is in place, suddenly the people who were doing fine, are not so, and a whole black market opens up trading in gold or something.

This would make a good writing prompt

I wouldn't support cashless to begin with. It's a good reason for banks to start applying negative interest rates on accounts that don't spend.

chill

In my opinion the only thing that heading for the hills is going to accomplish in a society like that is death by drone and/or unmanned ground vehicles. The Resistance is probably going to be more cyberwar- and crypto-centered urban insurgency.

Wait... isn't the world supposed to end by then? You must be dreaming.

All but micro chips. Id happily wear external tech but never internal tech.

The value of life in slavery is slow low that resisting slavery until death is a meritful decision.