As technology advances, new companies with new innovations will ultimately bring new products to the market place. These types of disruptors always cause a ripple effect, a chain reaction of massive change into the fabric of society.
As we continue to digitize all that is known to the material world, technology like PAI will become a new standard for basic commerce on the Internet. It is under such conditions, where a decentralized totalitarianism can take place. That's right...decentralized totalitarianism!
How does it happen? By controlling the access. The Internet is a tool, a theoretical "space" or "cloud" of information of various size, width, shape, and form. Right now, our devices are the gateway into this realm, and as such, it very much touches our physical reality. But as we become more immersed, obsessed and addicted to the digital world (psychologically and spiritually), some will be willing to do anything to continue accessing it.
This is where the totalitarian system can be installed. By demanding certain acts of worship, and to take on the branding of the entity/corporation/state on the forehead or right hand (which will ultimately lead to their inhumanity) just to access the Internet itself, all streams of online commerce can be controlled. Furthermore, the reemergence of socialism in modern times gives rise to the strong possibility that this Mark/Image requirement to access the Internet will be offered to everyone, and anyone!
There's no doubt that if the Bible is true, this data point alone in Revelation 13 makes a good case since it seems to be describing an economic system that can very much be achieved with the advent of blockchain technology. Otherwise, how is it that as we develop new and innovative tech, the prophetic language seems to fit better and better?
LINKS
https://projectpai.com/
https://static.projectpai.com/whitepa...
http://biblehub.com/kjv/genesis/11.htm
http://biblehub.com/kjv/revelation/13...