The Mark of the Beast will not be a chip implant or digital currency. It will be something far more ambitious. As AI advances and out-competes humans for jobs, new trans-human products will emerge that promise to let humans match the mental and physical ability of robots. Brain implants will let you download knowledge and give you genius IQ in select domains. Artificial limbs and eyes will give you the strength, motor skill and perception of heavy machinery. But there will be a catch: just as the speech of chatbots is regulated for safety and political correctness, a brain implant will regulate your speech, thoughts and beliefs: compromising your human free will. Eventually, everyone of working age will be given a choice: become a mind-controlled cyborg, or be replaced by someone who will. At the cost of your soul.
Too expensive to give most people brain surgery thus brain implant BCIs will be niche.The Bible is a sex joke btw. Sex sex sex.
>>16924443Automation will make everything cheap, at first.
>>16924426>you have to surgically implant these permanent, disfiguring and non-inheritable trinkets - for the right to wageslaveWhat the fuck, that's a ridiculous offer.
>>16924426I imagine itl start with better versions of the shit we already have, like always on mic or cameras prompting AI responses, so humans just become a physical agent for an AI. Could sound smart in a boardroom if you have AI contact lenses teleprompting you what to say
