The world is in the middle of a new technology arms race, according to best-selling historian Yuval Noah Harari, who warns that the prize being fought over this time is not physical territory, but our brains. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Harari predicted a future where governments and corporations will be able to gather enough data about citizens around the world that, when combined with computational power, will let them completely predict – and manipulate – our decisions.
Harari calls this concept “brain-hacking”. Harari painted the grim picture of a future only a few decades away, in which big tech, or governments, “or whoever”, could know about everybody’s medical conditions and personal life histories. In other words, they could know us better than we know ourselves. That’s even before you throw in emerging technologies like neural interfaces that could allow real-life mind reading… (READ MORE)https://www.skywatchtv.com/2023/01/17/brain-hacking/