MIT Technology Review, one year ago:
"At the front of the line, representatives of Worldcoin Indonesia were collecting emails and phone numbers, or aiming a futuristic metal orb at villagers’ faces to scan their irises and other biometric data. Village officials were also on site, passing out numbered tickets to the waiting residents to help keep order."
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/06/1048981/worldcoin-cryptocurrency-biometrics-web3/
I was in Indonesia in January, had been a few years, and it's one of those places where on one hand people in the West, especially the US, can't even fathom how ubiquitous mobile tech is (inserting your chip card to pay is something even grandmas would laugh at).
Pair that with a State with a very obvious authoritarian instinct but limited by the country's economic, social and material conditions in its desire to control and direct. In many aspects, a lot of these developing countries are "lucky" in that sense. The State wants to be like 1950-current Europe, with its "soft" but relentless "social authoritarianism", but just can't afford it.
Now all these bits of tech will enable it to skip the whole "development" (social, institutional, political) process, and go straight to the totalitarian phase. Just like they skipped phone lines and went mobile directly.
The dystopia in places like Indonesia will be fuckin horrible.
Also from one year ago
BuzzFeed:
Worldcoin Promised Free Crypto If They Scanned Their Eyeballs With “The Orb.” Now They Feel Robbed.
Biometrics play an important role in colonial history: British administrators began experimenting with them in the 1850s as a way to control and intimidate their subjects in colonial India.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/richardnieva/worldcoin-crypto-eyeball-scanning-orb-problems
Confidential Worldcoin Responses to MIT Technology Review
31.03.2022
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21578921-worldcoin-responses-to-mittr
So funny, Sam being busy now 🤭:
"Inspired by their vision for a more fair and more inclusive financial system, Fifty Years is excited to partner with Worldcoin alongside Andreessen Horowitz, Coinbase, 1Confirmation, Variant, Digital Currency Group, Sam Bankman-Fried, and other top Web3 investors. We’re looking forward to helping Alex, Sam, and team connect the world and make a massive dent in global wealth inequality."
-FiftyYears, 21 Oct 2021
Sam a bien préparer son coup 2 en 1 en rencontrant tous certains leaders du Monde suite aux inquiétudes de certains pays sur l'usage Éthique de son IA, et en même les interroger sur la nouvelle vague de remplacement des monnaies empiriques pour du mumerique à court terme et même Elona dû sauter dessus avant Vivatech son X a bien fait exploser le cours d'une crypto émanant d'etherrum X du coup il se sent mieux au niveau gouffre financier de Twitter et très bon tacticien juste en dessous de Jeff Bezos...il respire même s'il n'avait pas le nom de marque déposée de son objet du désir qu'était Twitter ' quelle déconvenue en attendant son prochain procès contre les employés de Twitter et Jack sans oublier Rabble ont dû rigoler avec cet acte cupide 🙏💜🫂🤣
