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Just scanning through the document…

Scenario #4(High-cost centralized storage & high demand for consumer privacy/security)

Digital Apocalypse : Russian President Vladimir Putin said, “whoever leads in AI will

rule the world.” Unbeknownst to the common man, the transition into the information age has

exposed the rich and powerful, who have remained comfortable in the background for

decades, if not centuries, to disruptive forces threatening their hold on their power, status, and

wealth in the world. Promoting utopian ideas such as the singularity and other

pseudo-religious notions, among other fervorous incentives, they invested heavily in the

development of artificial intelligence. Corporate blackmail and market manipulation became

popular attack vectors in the hybrid wars. In secret, either an advanced quantum computer

was developed to hack the most sensitive financial, military, and social media databases or

during the large-scale hybrid war, a malicious AI as able to coordinate massive leaks of

sensitive data on yuge numbers of individuals. Crimes ranging from pedofile rings and arms

trafficking to adultery and cyber-bullying were publicly exposed in a digital judgement day

which displayed the imperfections of humanity in even the most petty of ways. Supposedly

encrypted personal messages were published, and private transaction data were shared with

the world. Massive social upheaval resulted as populations lost trust in their spouses, family,

neighbors, and governments. Needless to say, once the dust settled and sins were forgiven, the

only meaningful way forward for society was to accept a decentralized information network

to secure the three-sided object of privacy, property, and wealth. A unique sign of the Digital

Apocalypse would be massively disruptive black swan events related to data privacy and

security like state-sponsored cyberwar. The chaos may be acute or it might be akin to boiling

frogs, but an inflection point will certainly come in which large segments of civil society,

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business, the military, and especially individuals will transition to this new model. The

transition will likely be hectic, but it will also likely be driven by marginalized individuals at

the grassroots level. As Mahatma Gandhi famously said, “First they ignore you, then they

laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”