More than a sketchy cash for biometrics scheme, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and friends' Worldcoin project is positioning itself as a one-stop shop for identity and financial infrastructure that could upend traditional finance and governance structures as we know them.
Stavroula Pabst explores the race to apply emerging neurotechnologies, such as brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), in times of both war and peace, expanding conflicts into a new domain — the brain — while perhaps forever changing humans’ relationship with machines.
Ripple, Stellar and Ethereum market themselves as tools of “financial inclusion,” yet all are racing to power CBDC pilots worldwide. Stavroula Pabst shows how their elite backers plan to control the “global payment standard” for programmable money.
Palantir, Anduril and Clearview AI, all backed by Peter Thiel, are using the Ukraine war as a proving ground for AI targeting, autonomous drones and facial recognition, technologies that are poised to be used domestically as tools of surveillance.
While war rages, Ukraine has become a Great Reset testing ground: the Diia “state in a smartphone,” a coming e-hryvnia CBDC, reconstruction handed to BlackRock and Big Tech, and a “green” economy designed by elites.