Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Ray Bradbury. Names of authors of fiction which look to have accurately depicted the future. Digital ID is just around the corner, and smart cities will also follow suit. To paint an accurate depiction of the near future is actually quite simple:
You’ll be linked to a centralised digital system, that system will know everything about you, you will have access to your digital accounts denied depending on whether your actions align with the state or not, you will be trapped within your 15-minute city zone purely by the system shutting down your digital world if you leave it, and eventually, your view of reality will begin to warp.
This I can write now. And spell it out clear as day. The writing is on the wall, these plans have already begun. This is what was predicted not only in fiction, but also spelled out in non-fiction by authors like Carrol Quigley and Julian Huxley.
In the near future books will become banned (Fahrenheit 451), the digital world will be twisted in an ever changing way where all information will be altered in real time and always accepted as being true (1984), And the masses will be dumbed down and sedated to such docile levels that the concept of bread and circuses will reach its peak (Brave New World.)
My own book also has these concepts embedded within the fiction. Grandiose events and clearly exaggerated events and processes are there to highlight real issues (The Theory of Devolution.) And in the future that may be the only way to find any real information. You’ll have to find it layered within satire, within fiction, within comedy. Layered beneath other information that otherwise would seem like it had another purpose. Layered in a way that the AI cant see it, at least for a short time, before the comedy changes again.
In the future you wont be able to explicitly tell the truth, you will only be able to implicitly tell it. The plan of the elites for some time has been eugenics. And whether that’s simply to benefit them or not, eugenics will become a fact of life for everyone regardless. Meaning, If you are not smart enough to read between the lines in the future digital world, you will not escape the fake digital reality built up around you. It will be an IQ test on an incredibly grand scale.
People in the future will be seen as mere economic units, brainwashed by fake realities. How can you tell what is happening outside of your 15 minute city if you’ve never actually been outside of it? You may think a war is going on but in reality there is none, or that the war was actually with a different nation entirely (1984.)
Satire and comedy may be the only way to speak through the machine to other people. It may be the only way the system doesn’t notice what you’re thinking for a short time before it eventually catches on. Because comedic styles change fast, and will most likely change more rapidly going into the future. You can show some people a picture of a cat and they will burst out laughing. Others a rock. Comedic styles change rapidly and is a language in itself, evidenced by the rapid changes in humour on social media already, especially within niche circles. Esoteric memes.
Fiction and satire itself is something people can create in a very intricate and changing way. It can be layered, like as if speaking in another language. AI can do this too, but it lacks the creative flare and genuineness to actually do it properly. In the future this will largely remain the same, the AI wont be able to invent new things properly. And by that I mean it will be able to, but not in the sense that we do. Meaning, the AI needs prior knowledge of something first, it’s too rational to the point where it’s, obviously, just to robotic. AI itself is not actually AI, it’s machine learning. It’s just common to call it that. They are just very advanced machine learning programs. This was also implied in my book, as the story is presented in a way that makes you think the characters, who had become AI programs, are sapient. But with a little bit of thinking one can figure out that something else is going on.
In the end the true rebellion will be information. Eventually I believe the globalist order will collapse, it will be too over centralised, this theme is more prevalent in my book then in other dystopian fictions, thus the title (The Theory of Devolution.) So one of the smartest moves, unless of course the new order can be stopped from forming in the first place, is to understand genetic lineage, focusing on reproduction and clever information dissemination in order to get out the other side successfully generations from now.
Looking at the bigger picture and long term trends in a rational way is important. All empires eventually fall.
Alex James.