Futureviews:

According to the International telecommunication Union, only 3.2 billion people were using the internet back in 2015.  Today, that number has doubled.  The year is 2036 and over 6 billion people are spending their time on the internet.  Cryptocurrencies have evolved to the point where central banks are no longer needed.  Cash is a rarity now.  Every transaction is done over the net.  Location services are always on for “safety purposes.”  Medical as well as monetary records (current balance, wages, expenses) have become public for dominant corporations to view.  Anyone with a computer can be tracked at any time.  Global Wi-Fi or “Glo-Fi” is currently reaching its fifth anniversary since its launch.  Companies including Airbnb and Expedia change their rates depending on if you are using a private or public browser.  This has been happening for the past 25 years or so (maybe even more), but it is important to make note of.  Every movement you make on the internet is recorded.  All of this sounds alarming, but you would be surprised to know that only a minority are aware what any of this means.  The rest of us continue to live completely unaware that we are all being monitored at all times by not just the government, but by big businesses as well.

There is little we can do to face this issue other than to get involved politically.  Our politicians were the ones who greenlit the ideas brought up by big businesses to make everything public.  We as the citizens of the United States only have the power to try and get people into office who will reverse this.  Big brother does not need to know as much as he does.  This country boasts freedom, but is it really freedom if every single action we take is being recorded and stored for a potential later use?  If we band together and make this a big deal politically, we are closer than ever to restoring the privacy that existed before the internet boom.

-Aron Gross