Pokémon Go Is Just the Start - Silicon Valley Is Taking Over Our Reality

The game being played at Tokyo's famous Shibuya
crossing.  'While we're all busy playing Pokémon, the
companies are following the game's advice - Gotta catch
'em all'.  Photo:  Aflo/REX/Shutterstock

"Pokémon Go should be viewed as an important breakthrough that can’t be defined properly without taking into consideration the total colonisation undertaken by Silicon Valley through the “internet of things” (absolute integration of our vehicles, homes, tools into the network), “smart cities” (acquisition of our cities’ infrastructure by Silicon Valley), social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram), Google, transport innovations (drones, Tesla Motors, etc), “big data”, total surveillance..."

Pokémon Go is just the start – Silicon Valley is taking over our reality
by Srecko Horvat, Opinion, The Guardian,
25 July 2016

New technologies from games to the internet of things are integrating every aspect of our lives into a global network that serves monopoly capitalism

From minefields in Bosnia to military bases in Indonesia, from Holocaust museums to Julian Assange’s embassy, Pokémon seem to be everywhere. As Pokémon Go takes over the world, Saudi clerics have renewed a fatwa against the gaming series and Japan’s authorities have released safety guidelines in preparation for the official launch there. Never before has digital reality become so integrated into our physical world.

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