Whitney Webb – Big Data, Transhumanism and Why the Singularity May Be Faked

I lately interviewed investigative journalist Whitney Webb about her two-volume e book collection, “One Nation Under Blackmail.” She’s been on tour, selling the books in dozens of interviews.

Here, we focus on a few of her experiences for the reason that launch of her books, and delve deeper into the disturbing merger of the intelligence state, Silicon Valley and medication, and the way transhumanism — eugenics rebranded — is being rolled out beneath the guise of well being care.

We additionally discuss censorship and different ways used to mildew public notion, and the way synthetic intelligence could also be overhyped to provide technocrats and eugenicists carte blanche to do no matter they need with out having any accountability.

Her e book tour introduced her again to the U.S. for the primary time in eight years. When requested about her first impressions after being gone for such a very long time, she expresses shock at how keen Americans have develop into to embrace spy instruments like Ring cameras on their entrance doorways.

“This is definitely troubling,” she says, “as a result of quite a lot of these tech corporations, Google included, are contractors for the navy and for intelligence. I believe it will be naive to imagine they do not have backdoor entry to these gadgets, realizing whenever you’re house and whenever you’re not and all of that.