The other day, I was thinking about how difficult it will be in the future for us to know if someone who friends us online, at a social network is a real person or not. Further, how can the IRS know if a real person is filling out the form and it isn't someone trying to launder money under a false identity? Now then, the IRS allows for created persons or corporations, so there are many ways to already spoof the system.
It has also been noted that most all the forms that citizens fill out with our government have errors in them with regard to identity, perhaps the ratio is less with the IRS because folks are afraid to give false information. Nevertheless, as the government shares more and more information with itself, and the IRS, consider the ObamaCare healthcare mandate and how the IRS is taking the lead role in verification of enrollment, and you can see the problem here.
Indeed, I was considering all this the other day as I was headed off to bed and wondering what the government could do with all this bad data they've been collecting. I considered the concept of Vannevar Bush and life-log. If someone had a long-standing relationship with a social network from the time they were very young, chances are you could trust that it was an actual person. If not, you have to create some sort of a life-log for them.
After all, you are going to have to prove you are a real person at some point during your life experience, or you won't be permitted to participate in the modern amenities provided by the socialist utopia - Welcome to 1984, I mean 2024. If others had information about the individual, perhaps old videos posted, and many friends that they actually knew, then the "system" or "Prism" or some AI (artificial intelligent) algorithm could immediately identify them as a "real person" and not a spoof in the data.
Those that had not participated or had no data to look through, would be, anomalies in the overall data, and would either not be real people, or they would be false positives. If the IRS contacted a false positive, that individual would have to prove that they actually exist. If they couldn't prove that they actually exist, or didn't have any way to back anything up, then their account would be flagged. This might cause the government to not issue Social Security benefits, food stamps, allow them to license their vehicles, get a cell phone, or use any of the other services of government.
The next generation will be big data controlling organic humans. Let's just hope they don't control is to the point of extinction. No, I am not a conspiracy theorist, remember this was just contemplation and thought while falling asleep and going from lucid dreaming to REM.
Nevertheless, although the dream turned out fine in the end, it was rather scary during the interim process for all of our citizenry. Yes, this is how we make science fiction movies and screenplays. But just because it is a fictional thought, doesn't mean it will stay a fictional plot. Please consider all this and think on it.
Lance Winslow has launched a new provocative series of eBooks on Future Science Fiction Concepts. Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net
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