Being the computer savvy individual that I was, I decided to do a little bit of poking around during the late nights that I worked at my firm and was eventually able to gain access to some seriously twisted documents, documents that unequivocally proved that not only our national government, but governments from every corner of the globe were buying data collected by the IGBI on everyone that was connected to the internet. This amounted to right around 4 billion people, a number that had been growing steadily ever since the internet was conceived.
Any morally straight person would have decided to make this information known. After all, because our world had developed to the point that everything, and I mean everything, was connected to the internet, the IGBI had information about every single aspect of our lives, from the music we listen to in the car, to the temperature we keep our house at, to the videos we search for online, and, most importantly, what it is that we say and to whom we say it. Furthermore, the IGBI censored and controlled everything that we were able to access online, and therefore, indirectly, controlled most aspects of our lives. Anyway, I am not a so called morally straight person, and when I first realized the depth of this citizen monitoring program, I saw nothing but dollar signs.
After some more digging, I found out that governments around the world survived on the data that it bought from the IGBI on its citizens. Through complex algorithms, they were able to use this information to manipulate political affiliations, desired education levels, every aspect of life down to something as pointless as people’s opinion of their next-door neighbor. These algorithms worked by analyzing conversations that people had and then manipulating the information that they accessed when they used the internet. Most of the time, their searches had nothing to do with the conversations that they had previously, but the human mind is easily influenced, and subliminal thinking controls most of what we do and how we feel. Through this basic understanding of psychology and their advanced understanding of the power of computers, everything was able to be controlled by governments using the information that the IGBI had collected.
Now people aren’t stupid, even in a day and age where we didn’t have to remember anything because it is all a few clicks away, people still had a certain level of autonomy and I was just sure that people wouldn’t be too happy to hear that their every move was being recorded and used by the most powerful people in the world to control what people were doing and how they thought. But I couldn’t rush into any sort of action, I had to bide my time, take things slowly, and play my cards right.
If you want to know my next move, continue my story here.