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Speaker 1: I'm not saying that a digital ID is automatically evil, like a digital ID is really

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Speaker 1: convenient. I've lost my ID so many times before, it'd be nice just to have it on my phone.

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Speaker 1: A programmable money could lower the risk of fraud, that's also nice, and cameras can make

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Speaker 1: neighborhoods safer. These are all genuinely true and good reasons, but they're all being

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Speaker 1: built together at the same time by connected institutions that'll be managed by a system

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Speaker 1: that has never existed before. And it's the combination of them that allows for the

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Speaker 1: centralization of power in a way that was never possible in human history. One of the main

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Speaker 1: companies that's going to be building the surveillance and data infrastructure for this

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Speaker 1: system is called Palantir. Palantir is a data analytics company. What you might not have

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Speaker 1: known is what Palantir means. The name comes from J .R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and in

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Speaker 1: that story the Palantiri are ancient seeing stones and they let whoever holds them see

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Speaker 1: anything anywhere at any time. Sauron uses them not just to watch but to manipulate Middle

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Speaker 1: Earth. What is that in the modern day? That's the algorithm. To make people believe things

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Speaker 1: that aren't necessarily true. It feeds people their worst impulses and fears. I'm not

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Speaker 1: saying this is a prophecy of the Bible, but I am saying that symbolism like this doesn't

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Speaker 1: happen by accident.