Could Big Data, AI And Robotics Lead To This Spine-Chilling Future???

Experts and futurists will argue endlessly about whether we're entering the anthropocene, an age in which creativity is the driving force (like agriculture or industry have been before), or a technology age, in which technology is the driving force. If the latter, we face an uncertain culmination to all this advancement. Will technology be the great equalizer (a topic I have covered in my post on'Automated Luxury Communism') or continue to widen the gap between the digital haves and have-nots? The Internet of Things is less about convenience than it is about commerce. Not only do companies sell us the gadget, but we continue to pay rent to the company by giving them our data, which they can mine to sell us more things, or sell the data itself to another company that wishes to sell us more things.