At last I am up to some of the things I was looking forward to reading about in The Apocalypse of Yajnavalkya - the near future.

The reports of conversations with seeming visitors from off world, Eduard Meier, a swiss farmer, relates things he claimed he was told by this visitor, Semjase, who said she was from a planet called Erra (this is the name http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/amgg/listofdeities/erra/index.html from mesopotamian mythology).

The first mention after introducing this story in the book of dates is of Semjase saying that in 2028, by the reckoning of her people (descendants from Atlantis) was the beginning of the epoch that is called the "Age of Aquarius", the previous 2000 years, the period of the precession of the sun backwards against the stars as it rotates was the age of Pisces, and the emblem of this being Jesus, whose associations with fish are dense, the symbol of a truncated vesica pisces being one of the logos used my modern pentecostal christians.

2028 is also the time of the setting of the story in the last episode of the Deus Ex game universe, in which during 2027 a hacker attacks a vulnerable circuit contained in all of the cybernetic implants of people, who by this time (5 years from now) are getting into having not just prosthetic replacements, but enhancements, that prove very popular and become mandatory for industrial workers, who then can perform tasks that normally require a lot of expensive equipment.

I dunno about the concrete story of Deus Ex, that being, the simple physical augmentations, but I think it's fair to say that Neuralink is within a couple of years of becoming a common implant in people, and like the augmentations in this fictional world of Deus Ex, will be very widespread, indeed, I can imagine Musk collaborating with the fancy media manipulation operation that did the 2020-22 hoax to drive people towards accepting experimental gene therapies, to promoting the idea that this implant is required "Fuer ihre zicherheit" naturlich.

As long before described in William Gibson's Sprawl Trilogy, the idea of neural jacks having a back channel that allows specially constructed signals, called "ICE" to fire messages into the brain directly, that cause the cessation of the autonomic nervous system's function. Coma, and if not remediated, death. Literally stopping breathing and pulse.

Imagine, the chip that sits behind the wire probes that are inserted into parts of the brain to create an electrical contact, this chip, will undoubtedly be patented, and secret, just like the jabs contents, and it doesn't take a computer network security genius to understand that the full design and capabilities of such an opaque blob of tech, software and hardware, is inherently liable to be acquired by malicious actors.

A disaster on the scale of the Aug Incident described in `Deus Ex: Mankind Divided` would not need to necessarily be a physical one, with synthetic muscle systems with superhuman strength suddenly moving without volition or purpose, it would be enough to either send a kill signal like Gibson's ICE, or better still, a brainwashing program that poisons people's ability to make sense of the world and causes them to behave in ways that are alien to them, causing great harm.

Either way, it only takes a little chip and a few wires and a massive campaign to push people to get it installed, for their safety, and the safety of everyone else.

2027. Mass cybernetic disaster. Seems like a likely outcome from all the things I see going on in the world right now.

Just as an aside, my father, who is minor pedophile and religious nutter, told me about 10 years ago that all the research and cross correlation (you should have seen his documents, you know the "Always sunny in Philadelphia" actor in front of the conspiracy theory board... yeah, his documents looked like John Nash's hidden office as depicted in A Beautiful Mind... He said that the trouble would start in 2024, which is also consistent with the 3.5 years later, 2028.

My dad is nuts, and I'm far past giving a damn about him, just that of course it impacts on my sense of myself. But I think he pretty much decoded it. There's no way that he would have drawn any of his data towards his conclusion from such "new age" stories.