Spy Technology No Longer Leaves Anything to the Imagination. – The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator

China has invented a mosquito-sized spy drone, and now I can’t wait for Trump to come up with a flyswatter. If a Democrat were in the White House, they’d probably be considering introducing a mandate to wear full-body-sized masks to protect against spy mosquitoes. But I know Trump wouldn’t do that. Trump would rather blast Chinese flies with a cannon than further erode individual freedoms. And so would I.
I feel overwhelmed by new technologies. Everything’s moving too fast, including my downhill slide into old age. My generation’s going to have a rough retirement. By the time we’re as out of it as Biden, we won’t be able to tell fiction from reality. Is that a real woman or an android? Is that a fly or a spy drone? Are they really going to cut taxes, or is it fake news? We’ll live in constant confusion.
What bugs me most is that we’ll get to 2050, senile and live in a giant virtual TV set, and still, no one will have invented flying cars like they promised our grandparents in sci-fi movies.
Some idiot will invent a new social media platform where you scroll videos just by blinking, and us old folks will have to wear sunglasses to keep from screwing it up. The government will scan the soles of your feet on the street to literally track your carbon footprint. And by the time you’re an adult, the average person will have to manage about three million passwords.
As a journalist, I’m getting more cautious with my communications. I try not to send my colleagues messages like, “That pig deserves to be chopped up” (about some Treasury minister), “Your secretary is hotter than Tabasco” (to my notary), or “I’m debating whether to write today’s column or go rob another bank” (to my lawyer).
These days in Spain, amid a massive corruption scandal, hours and hours of conversations and messages from ministers, high-ranking officials, journalists, and other lowlifes are coming to light. Until now, I’ve always known when I was being recorded, based on my professional situation and t…