I’d say, based on what I see in the US, 90% of people’s information comes through a device that’s censored, sorry, “curated.” The iPhone gives google, Facebook, the New York Times, cnn, big pharma, law enforcement, etc. a presence in everyone’s pocket. Take the iPhone out of the equation and the companies who have built the infrastructure over the last 50 years only reach 10% of the people they’re reaching now. And the data they’d be gathering would be worth 10% of what it is now (minus GPS and biometric ID type authenticators). The real nefarious players get front row seats in our lives thanks to Apple’s innocuous looking tech. It’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

Wanted to add wireless banking into that too - how many more decades would it take to implement a monetary reset if apple (and others) hadn’t already acclimated people to using phones to pay?

I’d say, based on what I see in the US, 90% of people’s information comes through a device that’s censored, sorry, “curated.” The iPhone gives google, Facebook, the New York Times, cnn, big pharma, law enforcement, etc. a presence in everyone’s pocket. Take the iPhone out of the equation and the companies who have built the infrastructure over the last 50 years only reach 10% of the people they’re reaching now. And the data they’d be gathering would be worth 10% of what it is now (minus GPS and biometric ID type authenticators). The real nefarious players get front row seats in our lives thanks to Apple’s innocuous looking tech. It’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing.