I do not know in which mood George Orwell wrote the novel "1984", in 1949, but he would not have been surprised if he saw these days. Because the phrase “Big Brother is Watching You”, which is a short summary of his book, continues at full speed by becoming more real and unimaginable than ever before.
As you know, under the name of combating the coronavirus epidemic, claims that people will be chipped have been mentioned very frequently recently. In some western countries such as Sweden, it is not directly related to the virus, but chips have already started to be installed for different reasons. However, people have been carrying the chips on them for a long time. There was no need for a device hidden under the skin. We can actually define mobile phones, which have become our integral limbs, as chips. Why is that? Because we carry everything from our health data to our bank accounts in smartphones. We download some programs and use them frequently. Most of the time, we do this knowing that not all of them are 100% safe. The phones opened with fingerprints, face recognition, eye retina scanning are actually accepted as status shows and privileges for some. However, all of these offer all kinds of possibilities in a golden tray for a person to follow easily.
Besides, in our social media accounts, is it not the traces that we leave to share every moment of our lives? Isn't every item that enhances our comfort in our homes and which we can not imagine their absence equipped with digital infrastructure actually become a trace? Maybe you have heard it too. The problems of the vehicles, whose keys are lost, remain on the road and cannot be operated because they are locked even if entered, can be solved from Europe via satellite. The approach of people who encounter such situations is more than negative, on the contrary, there are clauses of appreciation such as "Look at the guys, what are they doing?" After their individual problem is solved, most people do not engage in a discussion of confidentiality or think about the protection of private life.
On April 4, Chinese Specialist Nurettin Akçay Independent from Shanghai University said, "What kind of world awaits us in the future: We actually know!" He wrote an article titled. In this article, it is stated that the management used 2000 new technologies together with the epidemic in China. In addition, China was preparing to export this infrastructure to the world.
Now, let's talk about some of the systems in the article that are already used in China.
For example, "Social Credit System" was applied. China puts its citizens' behavior under the heading “social trust”. Those who follow the rules are rewarded, those who do not comply are punished and exposed. The system used an extremely comprehensive algorithm such as spending habits, social media usage, and the circle of friends as criteria. In other words, like the banks, the state will implement the black list application and even travel and health rights of those who enter the list may be restricted. Passing in the red light and smoking in the indoor area would be decisive in the valuation. China aimed to score all its citizens by the end of this year. In addition, equipped with more than 200 million “artificial intelligence”, the cameras placed everywhere can instantly detect whether a person is calm, angry, the rate of happiness on his face, what kind of clothes on him, hair color, gender, name, surname or even race. .
These examples clearly demonstrate the point at which the world has evolved.
Of course, there are also comments made on the use of cash. With credit cards, money was already partly de facto withdrawing from our lives. Now the discussions have moved forward. The leading companies in the use of cryptocurrencies and artificial intelligence are talking about inventing their own money. Even Apple CEO Tim Cook says the next generation will not "know what the money is".
As a result, we can say that. It does not seem possible to prevent all these developments, to stop them, and to eliminate them when they are spread to such an extent. We can define technology as a knife, as in the known example, and describe it as a killer in the hands of the murderer and a healing fact in the hands of the surgeon.
Well, if technology is a blessing of God and if we need to use it today, how can we make it more beneficial for both ourselves and all humanity? In fact, its paths are also clear; Dressing clothes of understanding, fairness and altruism to the technology.