Imagine we are in year 2050, and some scientists design a device using which you can listen to anyone’s thoughts without them knowing it. It would be fun, wouldn’t it?

Just imagine the possibilities. You can know what they are thinking about, their future plans, habits, good and the bad ones, their history, fears, desires, secrets. You can basically know so much about them that you can use that knowledge to win them over, or to defeat them, or to manipulate them to buy your deal.

But hey, now they also got the same device. Now they can also listen to your thoughts. Everyone knows what everyone else is thinking? Well my friend, that would create CHAOS. We don’t want that to happen. That’s why we need privacy to keep our thoughts intact and safe so that others cant misuse our vulnerability.

But guess what? Someone already has the brain reader device. You know who. Companies like Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter, Google know everything about you. Because everything you search, read, see, like dislike over the net gets recorded in their database. Not just that, these days some apps even asks permissions for the mic in your mobile phones. Which means Machine Learning software with Artificial intelligence enabled into them are listening to your day to day real life conversations also!

Without our knowledge such companies play with our emotions. Using the basic game theory they entice us and deceive us into believing things which is profitable for them. Weather it be influencing you to buy some specific product or services or to influence your political opinions, they are not leaving any stone upturned for profits.

This is where the world is right now. Power is in the hands of people who has your data. Centralization leads to power and eventually absolute power corrupts absolutely.

In the recent events of Cambridge Analytica, we all can see how the elections of the entire nation of USA were allegedly influenced using our data. Now the repercussions of that would come for a long time.

The future is not safe if we keep on trusting centralized authorities to get hold of our data. We have seen enough data breach incidents that its clear no matter how hard they try, keeping data safe in a centralized system is never going to be completely safe.

This revolution of decentralization is aimed at giving people their power back to them. And may be calling it ‘giving back’ is also not right, as never in the history of human kind people really had the complete power of their freedom and independence. This is that moment when we get total freedom from all authorities and centralized institutes.

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