Is the Power of the Internet Being Purposely Withheld? Part 2

In the first part of this 2 part article I discussed several science fiction style conspiracy theories surrounding the internet, and mega corporations using it's power for nefarious agendas. While I mentioned the "Matrix" and "The Truman Show" admittedly the majority of the article was focused around my own personal project that if I ever were to write a science fiction novel it would look similar to that. The idea that through the use of the internet "reality" is slowly being infiltrated, and altered. Quietly, little by little, day by day, the reality of the world around us, what we come to believe is reality, is becoming more fabricated, and more false.

While I believe this would make for a great book unfortunately I think what is really happening is less thrilling, and more insulting towards the human race.

I truly think all the world is a stage, and there are various plays of different sizes going on, many simultaneously, involving actors of different caliber. I believe that there are often unseen forces manipulating the way the world works, to discuss their reasons is to lessen the discussion on their existence.

I believe that those who pull the strings knew of "the internet" at least how we currently know it today. Surely they knew the some of the consequences, and ultimately after it's inception those with less foresight, but great intellect devised ideas such as an "internet of things" in which our everyday household items are spying on us. Where the next war might not be fought on a battle field with guns, but rather a cyber war with hackers going back and forth, using slow methodical logic, and a propaganda war likely waged on a countries own citizens. However, I believe the internet, and it's powers came about much faster than anticipated.

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Is the Power of the Internet Being Purposely Withheld? Part 1

[Authors Note: This is a very long article that covers a wide range of things, I could have separated them up into smaller articles, however, I had planned on writing an article about the limitation of the internet, and this is how it ended. I feel there is a good deal of information in this article.]
Great minds over the years have written numerous science fiction books that were decades head of the time, and over those years time, and time again we have seen science fiction because science fact. It would seem that the limitation of humans lies nested in the ability to create a thought. If it can be thought, it can be done, albeit eventually.

Look at Walt Disney's "Carousel of Progress", which is a focal point of one of my upcoming articles, for a good example of how much the only only limit is the thought. "If you can dream it, you can do it" - Which was said by none other than Walt Disney. Throughout the Carousel of Progress ride there are numerous things that were predicted, or laughed at the possibility of, as seen from a time previous in the time line. For example the main character, and narrator of the Carousel of Progress, states at one point that he's "even heard of two fellas who are working on some sort of flying machine....ahh it will never work". Of course the wright brothers did in fact get their plane flying, in in less than a century man went from having horse drawn carriages to nuclear powered aircraft carries.

That all being said, we come to the internet. I don't think that the "powers that be" had any idea of just how fast the internet would change the world. Maybe it's changing things just a little too fast for some of their own liking.

There are many theories about the internet, and the unseen hand pulling the strings of reality. For example there is the possibility that a service such as Google could actually be showing you what it thinks you want to see, and if done to a well enough extent, no one would ever know. A sort of mix between the "Truman Show" and "The Matrix".

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Google Seeking More Information - "Account Purpose"

When logging into my Google account, specifically through Blogger I was prompted with this:

Google Prompt for Blogger purpose

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Augmented Reality - Google "Glass"

Augmented reality is not a new concept, however we have just come to a point where today's technology are able to implement the features in a way that will make it work for the layman.

This will be the first of several segments on Google "Glass", and the problems that are inherently built into the devices, and programs. Problems that could be accidental, or intentionally placed there as a back door into our lives. 

*As of April 5th, 2012 this video has begun to go viral, being picked up by several news agencies.

One especially creepy aspect is in the last scene, where the character we are following is able to share his view of the sunset with another person.  This could be modified to allow anyone to see exactly what another person is viewing, and doing. Regardless of if the police want to catch crime by seeing drug deals sell drugs, or they simply want to see images of naked women, a tactic borrowed from the T.S.A.

Technology is growing at a staggering rate, and the amount of people who have significant computing skills is growing every day, thanks in part to the availability of devices such as iPhones, and iPads. Combined this with the power of the masses, such as the hacktivist group Anonymous, and you could end up with major security breaches.

Cell phone calls, and records have already been hacked. The Murdoch example is just one of many, Another recent example is the hacked emails from Stratfor. Each of these security breaches is significant, however imagine how much more severe it would be if someone could see what you are seeing, exactly where you are, etc.

A cloned device that only shows what the original device is "seeing" or doing would allow people to know exactly where a person is, who they are with, when they will be home, and a host of other issues. 

This article was a quick introduction in Google's Glass program, and some of the implications it imposes. Over the next few days, and weeks, more in depth articles will be written showing just how slippery a slope the Glass project can be. 

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Google and YouTube - Pushing Prison-Internet Functions on Users

A newer article has been written, which can be found here.

Instead of directly being logged in, many users of Google.com services, such as Gmail, and YouTube, were greeted with the following page.

Although this page may seem innocuous at first, it's part of a larger roll out of no other than creepy internet protocols being rolled out.

This page uses highlighted red font to attempt to scare users into giving their phone number to be able to restore their accounts or they "could lose all access to [their] account". It's only hidden in tiny font, at the bottom of the page, the option to skip this step.

This is just one piece of the coming prison-internet. It starts with "opt-in" features, then it becomes "opt-out" as many Facebook features are, such as facial recognition, and location tracking, and it's not long before there is an internet id required for U.S. citizens. After all, the Obama administration publicly admits wanting an internet id, and wanting looking forward to "creating an identity ecosystem".

Edit: Newest image received upon attempting to log into Google services:

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