While innovation is a scarce commodity outside the China’s status-quo of forced labor thinktanks, where brilliant minds surrender to overbearing government policy, the tyrannical leadership employs targeted social media search functions to spark the bloom of innovation. However, the aggressive and ongoing reverse-engineering campaign consisting of plundering computer and science projects from the West to propagate international prestige, is only as proficient as the robust level of available content hosted on social networking platforms. Beneath the coordinated data dumps and informational flood, eclectic machines emerge from the rogue nation’s purported military laboratories, including the most recent contraption involving espionage and slave drivers, as the globe was introduced to a floating drone mothership. The unit is capable of launching an airforce and navy arsenal of obedient robokill bots.
This future nightmare scenario does not discount the high magnitude of technological visionaries who are bound by the Communist party and the People’s Liberation Army, as China’s heavy population figures will yield a proportionate number of innovators, but offers criticism of the tedious and stifling environment forged by the presence of unchecked totalitarianism. The prevalence of a staggering infrastructure of surveillance equipment and the lack of societal or professional ethics makeup the perfect storm to raid the DIY community. The hundreds of millions of HD facial recognition cameras repress the basic freedoms of individuals through viable threats of imprisonment or worse, and opens up the floodgates for theft, while the psychological ramifications of stamping and grinding on the individual spirit are gruesome at best.
Hosting another Olympics is synonymous with grandstanding in shrilly broadcasting to the world that the fire spewing will of the Beijing creature of folklore writes its own rules in openly mocking diplomacy, but capturing online blueprints for multiple self-serving purposes is an inconspicuous attack on the free market . The regime ungraciously promotes technology harvested directly from the accounts of high school science teams streaming on YouTube, or the state preferred TickTock, is a blatant indictment that the Party can and will hijack an indiscriminate amount of information or technologies which are made public through the opaque “terms and conditions” of digital communities, and falsely stake a claim that the designs and devices originated within its borders.
As American consumers have left Pandora’s Box ajar in embracing gadgetry which supplies the Chinese government with mountains of proprietary data and intelligentsia for a pennies (“yuans”) on the dollar, the mighty dragon simply mocks the ignorance of Amazon shoppers. The kneejerk reactionary consumers are pitifully indifferent to where purchased products are actually manufactured in blindly satisfying an insatiable lust for the latest and greatest devices, despite the societal costs.
This leaves China’s most recent example of the complex and unsettling dynamics in the absence of subtlety or couth, the mothership drone array, built to operate on the high seas. Skeptics abuzz and for good reason, the concept of a multi-drone floating base already has already been proposed and similar designs, lacking lethal and strategic intentions, built by prep school science clubs and talented facilitators in the DIY ranks. As the fallout for the minor controversy weighed on a global scale will barely register on the meters of injustice, serious questions surround the legalities and protections of intellectual property, especially when used for nefarious purposes. The end game may or may not have long lasting ramifications on national security.
While the aforementioned failure in the oversight of federal agencies and corporate leadership to explore the possible threats of certain consumer electronic units contributed to the current burgeoning nightmare of the Chinese stopping at nothing to scour social media portals that could provide effective tools in forwarding ideology, smartphone users must become more vigilant. However, optimism is not abound that society will suddenly and living happily ever after instantaneously exercising discretion in the presence of instant gratification.
Beijing’s tycoon Mediterranean yacht class of a drone aircraft carrier (pictured above) evoking a scene of future nightmares, was unveiled in May, much to the chagrin of a group youthful future engineers in middle America, who began experimenting with the original technology as elementary school students. While the model mock-up of the viral launch mechanism for surveillance and weaponry currently rivals the scalability of RC equipment available at the local hobby shop, the official unleashing of the life-sized version of the vessel was in no doubt impressive.
As the PLA has focused on efficiency over the last two decades especially in the low earth orbit technologies, the tendrils of the dragon perfected the first functional generation of micro-satellites at the beginning of the century, illustrating a scenario where size does not matter.
The mothership drone project indicates that the bureaucratic entity may be gravitating from nano-solutions towards terrestrial applications as tensions surrounding Taiwan and a possible military conflict mount. While the information age gains momentum, its all about compartmentalization, and the decadence lay within the pursuit of Moore’s law through the micro, rather than the prodigious legacy of a small island floating fortress weaponry designed during the height of the Cold war. Now that the era of abundance has passed (where the rules dictated by the Green New Deal only apply in the West), China’s desire to downsize actually resonates with various fringe demographics, and irony that is not lost on realists and practicality. With the prevalence of overengineering as a global trend accountability and the campaign for truth is nullified by toxic ideology stemming from both sides of the Pacific Ocean, and the span of the political ledger.
Until consumers are made aware of the blatantly aggressive tactics by Beijing to shamelessly poach petabytes of data from servers that could be used for military and espionage applications, the pillaging will continue and remain a threat to fundamental liberties. Curiously many of these data storage devices are subsidized by the US government, and provide the framework for social media giants F***book and Twitter. On a side note, the Trump administration had the opportunity to prevent TickTock from gaining a foothold with American users, but failed when presented with a golden opportunity to squelch the Chinese digital invasion.
As the universal ineptness from the tech world, the business community, and elected officials has resulted in a growing crises transcending the borders of the electronic dreamworld, it is the responsibility of the individual to face reality in fortifying the front lines of a savage war where the future is at stake, and imagination hangs in the balance.
The new saying goes, “It’s only a science project before China causally executes a pickpocket with malicious intent.”