Emeritus Professor John Gray has given some profound thoughts on the emergence of surveillance capitalism. This has been on the agenda for some time, with developments in IT, but now is moving into an even tighter realm with bio-surveillance, such as seen in the Covid vaccine passports. The previous system of control, such as camera surveillance, has taken a quantum leap with the control of all aspects of living such as access to food and resources, as seen most dramatically in Austria and Italy, and with India in its full-on social credit system. Communist China, of course, led the world in this, controlling all aspects of its subjects’ lives, but the West, which has moved far away from the liberal democratic system, is fast racing to catch up with the communists.
