The World Economic Forum's Augmented Society - A Chip Implant for Every Human

In a recent opinion piece on the World Economic Forum's website:

 

....we can see how technology will "transform society" thanks to the use of augmented reality, at least in the eyes of the global ruling class.

  

Let's start with a definition of augmented reality:

 

"Augmented reality (AR) is the integration of digital information with the user's environment in real time. Unlike virtual reality (VR), which creates a totally artificial environment, AR users experience a real-world environment with generated perceptual information overlaid on top of it.

 

Augmented reality is used to either visually change natural environments in some way or to provide additional information to users. The primary benefit of AR is that it manages to blend digital and three-dimensional (3D) components with an individual's perception of the real world. AR has a variety of uses, from helping in decision-making to entertainment.

 

AR delivers visual elements, sound and other sensory information to the user through a device like a smartphone or glasses. This information is overlaid onto the device to create an interwoven experience where digital information alters the user's perception of the real world. The overlaid information can be added to an environment or mask part of the natural environment."

 

Here is a video showing the difference between AR and VR:

 

 

As noted above, augmented reality can be delivered using smartphones and glasses but it can also be delivered using tablets and contact lenses as shown in this video:

 

Augmented reality programs are also used by the military including machine vision, recognition of objects and gestures and can display data on a vehicle's windshield.  The U.S. military also uses AR in an eyepiece called Tactical Augmented Reality which mounts on a helmet and can be used to locate another soldier's location.

 

AR can also be used as follows:

 

1.) retail businesses allow consumers to see how products will look on them or in their home prior to purchase.

 

2.) entertainment and gaming. 

 

3.) tools and measurement of different 3D points in a user's environment.

 

4.) architects can use AR to visualize a project.

 

Now let's go back to the WEF opinion piece on augmented reality.  When the piece was first published, this is what it looked like:

 

Now, thanks to those nasty web denizens who just love to propagate a conspiracy theory, WEF has been forced to add a disclaimer to the beginning of the article:

In case you can't read the small print, here is the disclaimer in full:

 

"Help us prevent the spread of disinformation

 

This article has been intentionally misrepresented on sites that spread false information. Please read the piece for yourself before sharing or commenting.

 

The World Economic Forum is committed to publishing a wide array of opinions. Misrepresenting content diminishes open conversations."

 

There's nothing that the World Economic Forum hates more than hate directed at itself.  On the upside, since I've read the piece for myself from beginning to end, according to the World Economic Forum, I'm entitled to weigh in.

 

Given the WEF's penchant for all things technological, they note the following three key points about the implementation of a society based on augmented reality:

 

1.) Augmented reality technology has the ability to transform society and individual lives, particularly in health care and mobility.

 

2.) As much as visual and hearing aids are a part of our lives today, implant technologies could become the norm in future.

3.) Stakeholders in society will need to agree on how to ethically make these amazing technologies a part of our lives.

The author notes that society is making the first strides toward an augmented society in two ways:

 

1.) using AR technology as an extension of rehabilitation (i.e. eyeglasses, prosthetics, cochlear implants) to restore a lost or impaired function.

 

2.) using AR technology in healthy individuals in all stages of life from childhood learning environments to professionals at work to ambitious senior citizens.  Examples include night vision googles, exoskeletons and brain-computer interfaces.

 

The author provides two specific examples:

 

1.) trying to converse in a noisy environment - AR technology would allow you to use glasses or earbuds that temporarily improve your ability to hear.

 

2.) children with ADD could use AR technology to block off excessive stimulation that distracts them through the use of extra visual and audio guidance.

 

Now, let's get to one of the key points of the opinion piece.  The author notes that technology will become intertwined in the body in the form of implants and that:

 

"....As scary as chip implants may sound, they form part of a natural evolution that wearables once underwent. Hearing aids or glasses no longer carry a stigma. They are accessories and are even considered a fashion item. Likewise, implants will evolve into a commodity....

 

....Getting an implant is obviously more invasive than picking up a pair of glasses. Generally, implants will be linked to medical conditions. The extent to which a particular device becomes common will depend on the technology’s functionality and how far it’s integrated into your body and daily life(style)."

Fortunately, we can remove hearing aids and glasses when we don't want to use them; the same cannot be said for implantable technology.

 

Of course, the braintrust at the WEF love the very idea of implants as you can see in these quotes:

 

"Brain implants take us one step further and allow us to tap straight into the body’s “operating system...

 

An indispensable wearable device may be implanted under the skin as a first approach or in the belly if needed....there may be other implants that influence the nerves of the peripheral nervous system or the information highways that connect the spinal cord and brain to organs and limbs."

 

In an attempt to convince us that AR technology is for the betterment of humanity, the author states that:

 

"Just as with wearables, no one turns their head anymore for medical necessities like hearing aids or pulse monitors. Even in an educational and professional setting, smart goggles, phones, wristbands and the like are commonplace. Gaming is the next target. The question is whether implants will follow a similar evolution. Health? Plausible. Education and profession? Potentially....

 

If the idea of a chip in your body makes you cringe, consider all the pharmaceuticals you take without question."

Once again, you can stop taking pharmaceuticals should you decide that you no longer wish to ingest them.  The same cannot be said for implantable technology unless you happen to be handy with a scalpel and a mirror.

 

At the beginning of this article, I noted that the WEF had added a disclaimer to the beginning of this opinion piece, stating that certain websites had been spreading false information about the WEF's intentions.  Here are the sentences that have caused many to ponder the real motives of AR:

 

"The limits on implants are going to be set by ethical arguments rather than scientific capacity. For example, should you implant a tracking chip in your child? There are solid, rational reasons for it, like safety."

 

With a sentence like that, it's pretty hard for the WEF to deny that their stakeholders, the world's wealthiest and most influential individuals, are not enthralled with the concept of a chip in every human being starting with the youngest and most vulnerable among us which will be soft-sold to the serfs as a means of improving their lives.

Here is yet another video on the use of AR to enhance human beings, turning us into Homo sapiens 2.0 and the ethical debate that will be brought to the forefront as a result:

Given the rapidly growing implementation of digital identification and the fact that governments and Big Tech thrive on their ability to track and trace our every move, it is only logical to those who are capable of critical thinking that there are serious issues regarding privacy and civil rights that accompany the implementation of implants and other augmented technologies.  As well, while we are being told that AR technology will be the ultimate solution for all that ails humanity, in fact, there is no guarantee that this technology will result in an improved quality of life for the useless eater class.

Yuval Hariri and Why the Future Doesn't Need Most Human Beings

While you may not have heard of him, Yuval Noah Hariri is playing a key role in our dystopian future as is being designed under the trade name of "The Great Reset" by the World Economic Forum.  

 

To get a sense of Hariri's belief system, here is a screen capture from his personal website:

 

 

From the WEF's website, here is a page dedicated to futurist Yuval Hariri with some information on his background:

 

 

His book, "21 Lessons for the 21st Century" was elected as November 2018's book of the month by the World Economic Forum Book Club as shown here:

 

 

Here is a quote from an article by Peter Koenig on the May 2022 WEF meeting which appeared on the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies website outlining the relationship between Hariri and WEF founder and head architect Klaus Schwab:

  

"Klaus Schwab hired the Israeli “futurist scientist” Yuval Noah Hariri, apparently Klaus Schwab’s closest advisor, as far as his dream world “The 4th Industrial Revolution” goes, an all-digitized world. Hariri produces videos galore to convince the people that they are mere “hackable” animals, and eventually will be subjected to brain manipulation, either by implanted chips or directly by 5G ultra-short-waves.

 

It’s part of scare-mongering, but also part of truth-telling about their intention. This dark cult must divulge their intention in whatever convoluted way so that their plans may come through. That’s part of the cult’s rule.

 

And because our brains are vulnerable and can be chipped or otherwise manipulated, The Reset’s final doctrine, “You own nothing but will be happy” may also be true."

 

Back in 2020, Hariri addressed that year's WEF Davos global elite clusterf$ck with a "blistering" presentation on what lies ahead for the world:

 

 

Here are some key quotes with my bolds:

 

"In Davos we hear so much about the enormous promises of technology – and these promises are certainly real. But technology might also disrupt human society and the very meaning of human life in numerous ways, ranging from the creation of a global useless class to the rise of data colonialism and of digital dictatorships.

 

Automation will soon eliminate millions upon millions of jobs, and while new jobs will certainly be created, it is unclear whether people will be able to learn the necessary new skills fast enough. Suppose you are a fifty-years-old truck driver, and you just lost your job to a self-driving vehicle. Now there are new jobs in designing software or in teaching yoga to engineers – but how does a fifty-years-old truck driver reinvent himself or herself as a software engineer or as a yoga teacher? And people will have to do it not just once but again and again throughout their lives, because the automation revolution will not be a single watershed event following which the job market will settle down, into a new equilibrium. Rather, it will be a cascade of ever bigger disruptions, because AI is nowhere near its full potential.

 

Old jobs will disappear, new jobs will emerge, but then the new jobs will rapidly change and vanish. Whereas in the past human had to struggle against exploitation, in the twenty-first century the really big struggle will be against irrelevance. And it is much worse to be irrelevant than exploited.

 

Those who fail in the struggle against irrelevance would constitute a new “useless class” – people who are useless not from the viewpoint of their friends and family, but useless from the viewpoint of the economic and political system. And this useless class will be separated by an ever-growing gap from the ever more powerful elite."

 

Note the use of the words "useless class".

Hariri has a long history with this concept.  Here are some quotes from a 2017 article excerpted from his book "Homo Deus: a brief history of tomorrow", again with my bolds:

"The most important question in 21st-century economics may well be: What should we do with all the superfluous people, once we have highly intelligent non-conscious algorithms that can do almost everything better than humans?

 

...In the 21st century we might witness the creation of a massive new unworking class: people devoid of any economic, political or even artistic value, who contribute nothing to the prosperity, power and glory of society. This “useless class” will not merely be unemployed — it will be unemployable."

  

On August 9, 2022, TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design), a non-profit organization devoted to "Ideas Worth Spreading" as shown here:

 

 

...posted an interview with Hariri on its website which you can find here:

 

 

At the 14 minute mark, we find this:

"A lot of people sense that they are being left behind and left out of the story, even if their material conditions are still relatively good. In the 20th century, what was common to all the stories — the liberal, the fascist, the communist — is that the big heroes of the story were the common people, not necessarily all people, but if you lived, say, in the Soviet Union in the 1930s, life was very grim, but when you looked at the propaganda posters on the walls that depicted the glorious future, you were there. You looked at the posters which showed steel workers and farmers in heroic poses, and it was obvious that this is the future.

 

Now, when people look at the posters on the walls or listen to TED talks, they hear a lot of these big ideas and big words about machine learning and genetic engineering and blockchain and globalization, and they are not there. They are no longer part of the story of the future, and I think that — again, this is a hypothesis — if I try to understand and connect to the deep resentment of people, in many places around the world, part of what might be going there is people realize — and they’re correct in thinking that — that, ‘The future doesn’t need me. You have all these smart people in California and in New York and in Beijing, and they are planning this amazing future with artificial intelligence and bio-engineering and global connectivity and whatnot, and they don’t need me. Maybe if they are nice, they will throw some crumbs my way like universal basic income,’ but it’s much worse psychologically to feel that you are useless than to feel that you are exploited.

 

If you go back to the middle of the 20th century — and it doesn’t matter if you’re in the United States with Roosevelt, or if you’re in Germany with Hitler, or even in the USSR with Stalin — and you think about building the future, then your building materials are those millions of people who are working hard in the factories, in the farms, the soldiers. You need them. You don’t have any kind of future without them.

 

“Now, fast forward to the early 21st century when we just don’t need the vast majority of the population...because the future is about developing more and more sophisticated technology, like artificial intelligence [and] bioengineering, Most people don’t contribute anything to that, except perhaps for their data, and whatever people are still doing which is useful, these technologies increasingly will make redundant and will make it possible to replace the people.”

 

There will be many exciting and new jobs for humans.  The problem is that it's not clear that many humans will be able to do them because they will require high skills and a lot of education so a lot of humans will be left behind even if there are new jobs....the new jobs will require a lot of skills and retraining...."

Let's repeat the key sentence:

"Now, fast forward to the early 21st century when we just don’t need the vast majority of the population..."

 

So there you go.  According to Hariri's thesis, the future doesn't need us.  The term "useless eaters" becomes even more pertinent in the dystopian, technologically advanced world that Klaus Schwab and his band of disciples (including Hariri) are promoting for the surplus population who will serve no purpose in the future other than to waste food and other resources that might be better used by the global elite along with supplying them with some data points to feed their AI technology.  If you don't think that depopulating the world is part of the new Great Reset narrative, perhaps you might want to think again since the only solution to the global ecological stress is to significantly "decrease the surplus population", as written by Charles Dickens in A Christmas Carol.

Let's close with this thought:

Perhaps the future doesn't need futurists like Yuval Hariri and, for that matter, dreamers like Klaus Schwab and his ilk.