Solar CMEs are like dinosaur-killer asteroids, something which would absolutely fuck civilization on a scale not seen since the bronze age collapse, but since the corporatocracy hasn't
personally encountered one and the requite countermeasures (rebuilding all essential electronic infrastructure with faraday cages and the creation of proper space infrastructure) would be expensive, they're ignoring the risk. The good news of this is, if one
did strike, they'd
also be fucked, their best case scenario would be escaping to their New Zealand bunkers in time, then becoming feudal overlords with whatever firepower they had stashed therein and having to completely give up their dreams of world domination, the more plausible scenario, they'd be killed by their bodyguards for the keys to their bunkers as soon as their bank accounts became worthless.
Questions:
- What's the power source? Say you've got these teeny chips inside people's brains, what're they running off? They're too small for long-term batteries or shielding for radioisotope thermoelectric generators like pacemakers and it isn't like people would be regularly standing inside giant induction chargers.
- How are they getting signals out? Again, tiny objects, no room for antenna of size sufficient to be of use and they're stuck in a mass of water and carbon compounds which will absorb radio waves and transmute them to heat.
- How are they targeted to the right portion of the brain (or the brain at all for that matter)? They're particles freely drifting in the bloodstream. Even if they're capable of passing through the blood-brain barrier, they're not guided. Pulsing an electrical charge through one to activate neurons surrounding it could be activating neurons in any portion of the brain. This seems like mechanism for killing people with seizures, not a mind control device.
- What's the point? Normies already carry their phones everywhere for tracking and can already be effortlessly brainwashed to believe anything the media says without requiring servitorization and the dissidents the corporatocracy would like to track and mind-control would be too paranoid to get the vaccination in the first place.
Point is, I can buy the existence of a conspiracy to enslave everyone with a reenactment of feudalism by way of company towns and to build a robot army to ensure the conspirators aren't betrayed by free-willed human bodyguards when they screw
everyone who isn't them and that the conspirators would certainly
like to enslave everyone with mind control brain chips because the conspirators will openly admit to those on their own webpages, but viable nanotechnology
now is a step too far.
Mind control brain chips through non-nanotechnological means on the other hand are plausible, just harder to implement
secretly due to the need for major brain surgery rather than injections.
So don't do it secretly.
Imagine a future in which capitalism makes being cybernetically augmented the new minimum standard for employment like collage degrees today. Nobody will hire anyone with merely baseline human capabilities because the cyborgs will be legitimately more capable and therefore, more profitable. Of course, said augmentation will contain all kinds of backdoor overrides, spyware, planned obsolesce,
metabolic drug dependencies, etc, keeping its users permanently indebted to the megacorps selling and maintaining it. Company scrip that just barely pays for maintenance, a spyware link behind everyone's eyes and a remote shutoff for voluntary musculature to maintain monopoly of force. Or being perpetually unemployed and unemployable and receiving no social safety net since you
chose to not seek employment and starving to death.
As a bonus from the corporatocratic perspective, that way makes the slaves pay to buy their own chains from you rather than outsourcing the cost to you.