How Stake-holder Capitalism, Crypto-assets and Neurotechnology could be our future, the near future.

Since the beginning of the first lockdown like many I had questions that cannot be answered and the feeling something didn't add up. I started investigating and found some pretty interesting information. This will be quite lengthy, so I apologize in advance.

It's common knowledge that in 2015 Bill Gates started investing in vaccination research to combat pandemics, 10 billion in total. In 2019 he claimed the return on his investment will be 20-1. With a return of 200 billion. On 26th March 2020 a patent was filed called "CRYPTOCURRENCY SYSTEM USING BODY ACTIVITY DATA" by Microsoft Technology. A patent for a technology which is essentially a headset or device which reads your brain activity. This connects to your personal device (Phone, Laptop, Tablet etc.) and connects your brain activity to a network.

The network then sends notifications to your device to perform certain activities in the form of "smart contracts" e.g. Go for a 20 minute run and earn 200 credits, Watch this advertisement and earn 50 credits. Whilst performing these activities the brain will be simultaneously mining cryptocurrency on a subconscious level. Yes I know this sounds insane, hear me out. I have provided all the sources.

This is just one aspect of what Microsoft claims this technology can perform e.g. Thought commands for smart homes and devices, controlling drone's, machinery or prosthetic limbs, VR neuro-gaming and IRL gamification.

So where does this lead us? Well in the documents of the patent I found other organizations collaborating with Microsoft to bring this to the consumer market, the most influential being Neurogress, Milestone Entertainment and the Ethereum cryptocurrency.
Neurogress have a Road Map which states a planned consumer launch in the EU for August 2021 which aims for mass implementation to be accessible "for people at any income" followed by US and Japanese release dates soon after.

Ok. So why does any of this matter? well Klaus Schwab leader of the World Economic Forum has been in the spotlight a lot recently talking about the COVID pandemic and the direction of global economics. WEF claim they envision a world of decentralization, worldwide citizenship, no borders, stakeholder capitalism. and economic equality.
In 1971, Hein Kroos and Klaus Schwab published a German book titled "Modern Enterprise Management in Mechanical Engineering" which lays out the principles of stakeholder capitalism. The most fundamental principle being social contracts between corporations and stakeholders.

Could these social contracts be the same thing as the smart contracts mentioned in the Microsoft and Milestone Entertainment patent documents? Or just a coincidence? Could the progressive left-wing rhetoric be the same thing that Klaus Schwab is proposing? Or another coincidence? Could the fact Crypto-assets would inevitably lead to the decentralization of banking and possibly government? Or yet another coincidence?

All of this seems even more convincing when taking into consideration all of the Countries and Unions passing cryptocurrency regulations (USA, UK, EU etc.) along with the Milestone Entertainment patent which is titled "Architectures, Systems and Methods for program defining entertainment state system, Decentralized cryptocurrency system and System with segregated secure functions and public functions"
As well as the 5g rollout throughout numerous different countries, I'm sure you would agree such technology would require immense data to send and receive neuro-signals, therefore it makes sense they would need the high bandwidth internet 5g will provide. With a bandwidth of 20Gbps which is significantly faster than broadband speeds. Exceeding speeds of around 100 times faster than conventional broadband.

Imagine this scenario: "The problem, reaction, solution theory."

A deadly virus is found in China and its spreading fast. death tolls are rising, videos are circulating and people are scared. The government lockdown the country to "prevent the spread" but the economy is collapsing.
After years of extended lockdowns people are unemployed, unhappy, hungry and desperate, businesses are closing everywhere, tensions are rising, addiction and suicide rates are increasing and the political stage is shambolic whilst the wealthy purchase all the land and assets of worth being repossessed, before the global collapse and the new system commences.

Leaders of the world suggest this "super cool" new technology where you can get paid to watch or perform basic activities, ~~"but don't worry about how it works. leave that to us."~~ Everyone realizing the economy is gone and desperate to put food on the table thinks "This is fantastic, where do I sign?"

I think this would be a very tempting proposal for anybody, but few will wonder why it seems too good to be true. Their goal? Use people as "computers" to farm cryptocurrency. I know it sounds like something from Black Mirror, or The Matrix. It sounds ridiculous to me too but that's what the evidence is telling me. I have however made a few speculations in the scenario presented but I have tried to keep them grounded and logic based.

Thank you for taking the time to hear me out. I would love to hear your thoughts on this, I believe it would be an interesting topic for the podcast too.

Could this be our future? Are we moving towards Stake-holder Capitalism and Crypto based reward systems? Is this a plausible outcome when the collapse happens? If this technology can read thoughts and brain activity, can it police our thoughts too? Can they use Crypto rewards to "train" us into compliance and control every aspect of our lives?

SOURCES:

Windows Patent:

• CRYPTOCURRENCY SYSTEM USING BODY ACTIVITY DATA

Milestone Entertainment Patents:

• ARCHITECTURES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROGRAM DEFINED ENTERTAINMENT STATE SYSTEM, DECENTRALIZED CRYPTOCURRENCY SYSTEM AND SYSTEM WITH SEGREGATED SECURE FUNCTIONS AND PUBLIC FUNCTIONS

• ARCHITECTURES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS HAVING SEGREGATED SECURE FUNCTIONS AND PUBLIC FUNCTIONS

Neurogress:

• Neurogress Official Website

• Neurogress Patent information(.pdf) - MECHATRONIC SYSTEMS CONTROL VIA NEURAL INTERFACE

Klaus Schwab and stakeholder theory:

• Klaus Schwab - Wikipedia.org

• Stakeholder Theory - Wikipedia.org