One of the major reasons governments want to digitize everything is simple: once all important data is only available electronically, it becomes easy to eliminate. Delete the servers, corrupt the files, flip a switch, and the knowledge is gone.
The only information that survives the fall of electronic data will be what’s printed, carved into stone, or still held in the minds of living people.
That sounds far-fetched. But if you’re planning a great reset, you need the old knowledge to be lost, forgotten, or simply non-existent. The only information left from the so-called old world will be what exists in analog form.
And here’s the problem: most critical voices today exist only digitally. Money is digital. Documents are digital. History is digital.
Destroy the electronic infrastructure for just a few weeks, software and hardware wiped, and the impact would be unimaginable. Countries that looked super futuristic would find themselves in a disastrous situation, unable to respond. Until the reset is complete. Until the new world can be established.
So here are the real questions.
Who benefits from that vulnerability?
And why are we building a world where everything important can be erased with a single stroke?
We don’t have to stop digitizing. But we need to stop digitizing blindly.
Keep analog backups. Keep physical records. Keep human memory alive. And most importantly: keep asking who profits from making knowledge fragile.
Because the force at work here doesn’t want efficiency.
It wants control.
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Author: Modis Chrisha, artist, music producer and writer, exploring the intersection of technology, human potential, and society.
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