China

As it happens, I spent a week in Shenzen a couple of years ago, and it's an amazing city, built to be a super modern showplace, and they did it right. The cars on the street are newer and nice than the ones I see in US cities, everything is new and clean, it's like a great Western city only better. But watch the video and you see the steadily increasing level of control of the people using more and more advanced technology and controls. The world of Orwell's 1984 seems to be coming into focus there. The guy making the video ends up saying he's confused about what it all means. I guess he's a little slow, what it means is damn clear to me. --Del

https://youtu.be/ydPqKhgh9Mg