anlomedadhttps://robertludlum.com/books/the-utopia-experiment/
In Kyle Mills' thriller from 2013, a once-victim of the GDR surveillance state, now benevolent tech-bro billionaire, invents #Smartglasses .
The default apps, marketing strategy and €€ are geared toward fast adoption by the global rich 1% and the US military.
He wants to wait until 200 million glasses have been sold.
And then unleash a secret inbuilt functionality on the wearers which psychologically / neurologically renders them incapable of survival.
Thus, so his strategy, every society's hierarchy is decapitated at the same time, and the planet's resources stop being wasted on the gluttonous rich.
He thinks that after the ensuing likely painful chaos, a new, equally eval elite will inevitably take over.
But his hope is that the chaos survivors, by ridding them off the previously so deeply entrenched rich class ( eg #Epstein ) , will have been enabled to curb the radius and festering of their – inevitable – new psychopathic leaderships. Something that the non-psychopathic populations simply weren't able to do before, but are then wisened-up enough to enforce.
All this is not part of the novel's storyline. It only gets conveyed as theoretical bits and pieces here and there.
(And of course, his plans are thwarted by the hero, I assume. Haven't finished reading yet.)
But what a nice theory, eh?
I also hope that collapse survivors will be brave enough to cull psychopaths from the gene pool. Failing that, be smart enough to successfully curb the newly emerging psychopathic leaders in their devilishness .
Something we, the non-psychopaths today really aren't capable of doing with the entrenched cliques of the rich 1%.
#reading #novel #thriller #RobertLudlum #CovertOne #RCPcollapse #psychopathy
The Utopia Experiment (#10) by Kyle Mills
When Dresner Industries unveils the Merge, a device that is destined to revolutionize the world and make the personal computer and smartphone obsolete, Covert-One operative Colonel Jon Smith is assigned to assess its military potential. He discovers that enhanced vision, real-time battlefield displays, unbreakable security, and near-perfect marksmanship are only the beginning of a technology that will change the face of warfare forever--and one that must be kept out of the hands of America's enemies at all costs.Meanwhile, in the mountains of Afghanistan, CIA operative Randi Russell encounters an entire village of murdered Afghans--all equipped with enhanced Merge technology that even the Agency didn't know existed. As Smith and Russell delve into the circumstances surrounding the Afghans' deaths, they're quickly blocked by someone who seems to have access to the highest levels of the military--a person that even the president knows nothing about.Is the Merge really as secure as its creator claims? And what secrets about its development is the Pentagon so desperate to hide? Smith and Russell are determined to learn the truth. But they may pay for it with their lives . . .
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