Part 1.3 Evidence of Impact Data is the new gold as former Google head Eric Schmidt first posited. Yes, aggregation and analysis of data is beneficial. However, when SMART sensors the size of dust can be added to paint and then rolled onto the walls of our homes, Internet of Bio-Nano Things sensors can become part of a plant's structure, or float like La Santa María (Christopher Columbus’ ship) unimpeded across the blood-brain barrier, and the Internet of Minds sensors can combine to collect information about our daily behaviours, our physiological and neural processes and then tie it all to our interoperable digital ID with A.I. at the helm at the behest of predatory Capitalist financiers, ethical and moral questions must be asked. Is this really “progress” or is it a scorched path of mechanization and engineering that reduces all natural life into a series of inputs and outputs on a data dashboard? As Alison McDowell so succinctly puts it in her recent piece, “Scientism, Animism, Thunder Bolts, And Spirited Stones”, "They never asked permission to use their thunderbolts on us. We cannot give consent. Our DNA is a fractal antenna signaling the universe. Life isn’t a computation. Life isn’t an electrical engineering schematic. Life isn’t a data dashboard. Pi used in equations is an inadequate substitute for that which eternally unfolds. Nature is (mostly) curves. (h/t Sofia Smallstorm)" https://wrenchinthegears.com/2021/12/08/scientism-animism-thunder-bolts-and-spirited-stones/ The Internet of Nano Things and Bio Nano Things - I.A. Akyildiz: https://futurecomresearch.eu/previous/2017/site_pres/K/IAN_Akyildiz.pdf Slide Deck Here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PsFe2AQxxQ2bV5TMArkKf_wEbCgz3vIXxEA6wnOAINo/edit?usp=sharing Alison McDowell Twitter @Phily852 siliconicarus.org -https://siliconicarus.org/2021/04/23/the-best-intentions-of-sir-ronald-cohen-building-the-crypto-corrals-of-social-investment/ -https://siliconicarus.org/2021/11/04/token-chains-building-the-human-asset-class-through-the-ixo-protocol/ Johh Trudell: https://youtu.be/UpBnYe5P9rM Glossary of Key Terms Here: https://wrenchinthegears.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/level-up-082520.pdf

Visualize yourself as a young indigenous family standing on the water’s edge as tall ships emerge in the distance. Your peoples have thrived as younger siblings to the flora and fauna by living in right-relationship and reciprocity with the land. The people sailing the ships have plans for your family, your way of life, your culture and the sacred land that are antithetical to the concept of right-relationship and reciprocity, thus it is impossible for you to comprehend that they are motivated by material wealth, individual aggrandizement, and the spread of Christianity, often summed up in the phrase "gold, glory, and God”. Now jump to 2021, there are new ships on the horizon but this time they aren’t being steered by people. They are being steered by code, pre-programed by people who deem themselves like Pope Alexander VI who in 1492 confirmed the rights of Catholic Monarchs of Spain Isabella and Ferdinand the right to explore and convert pagan populations. However, this time Artificial Intelligence is on board and it has infinitely more potential for harm as it colonizes us at the cellular level (i.e., The Software of Life) and beyond. Once again it may be impossible for us to even comprehend what it has planned for us and why. We need to start doing the work to decode and protect all natural life on Earth as keepers of natural life. Framing based on this: -presentation by Alison McDowell - "DIGITAL EMPIRE: The War on Humanity and Natural Life": https://odysee.com/@Argusfest:b/Alison_Nano:e?r=7h3feb7VbgR7naBYr3nyLGPBi5Lg1R1N -two-part article series by Raul Diego: Part 1: https://siliconicarus.org/2021/11/10/the-new-face-of-colonialism-part-i-trafficking-in-child-data/ Part 2: https://siliconicarus.org/2021/11/16/the-new-face-of-colonialism-part-ii-building-the-green-pipelines/ Slide Deck Here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PsFe2AQxxQ2bV5TMArkKf_wEbCgz3vIXxEA6wnOAINo/edit?usp=sharing Alison McDowell: Twitter: @Phily852 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQdN0TfBHaXbDF5EDEgglfQ John Trudell: https://youtu.be/UpBnYe5P9rM Glossary of Key Terms Here: https://wrenchinthegears.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/level-up-082520.pdf Global Education Futures Map listing "PEOPLENAIRE" here: https://globaledufutures.org/vision_creation