Davies predicted what is happening now: a technological imperative driving increasingly obnoxious public policies that favor maximum control and loss of personal freedom, all of it made possible by sophisticated mass monitoring and surveillance, the merging of private and government databases (finally achieving the “perfect and total identification of human subjects”), and citizen complacency as “technology has spawned an age of mass pacification.”

As Davies writes, “The Big Brother society imagined by the world in [the past] depended on coercion and fear. The society we are developing now is more like Huxley than Orwell. It is Brave New World. Instead of the repressive tyrants and their omnipresent, brutal and intrusive technology, the public is being brought to heel by a lethal expectation of compliance….”

Peter Barry Chowka is an investigative journalist and medical-political analyst who specializes in reporting on alternative and innovative therapies and the politics of health care. Between 1992 and 1994, he was an advisor to the National Institutes of Health’s Office of Alternative Medicine. His website is: http://chowka.com.

© By Peter Barry Chowka. Reprinted with permission.

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