https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8aYRMtlZKg
Are These AMERICAN States are DYING? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBg1BFFyUjo
Why NOBODY Lives in these 9 EMPTY States https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTRSclDfJMQ
Why 50% of Americans Live in these 9 OVERCROWDED States https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vrAKD8ZPPI
California has more people than Canada & Texas has more people than Australia. Yet, California still has plenty of wilderness. Texas still has plenty of wide open natural spaces.
There is a gradual push to get more people accustomed to the Smart_City lifestyle of urban conformity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_city#Characteristics
https://www.twi-global.com/technical-knowledge/faqs/what-is-a-smart-city#
Ultimately, every move could be tracked & scored with various forms of technology.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_city#Technologies Contact tracing could easily be adapted & used as an excuse for just about anything. A world based AI run Carbon Credit Quota (CCQ) could easily be used to control people like mice in a maze. What a horrible world, if people had to constantly ask their AI Access Device (AIAD) permission to do just about anything.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_city#Chinese_enterprises
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_city#Criticism An imposed world Social Obedience Conformity score (world SOC score) would be an ideal human herd management tactic from the various governmental Sock_Puppets.
Of course there should be safeguards to ensure that all this tech doesn't become a human herd, global totalitarian management system. Otherwise, the world might become like a series of interconnected Black_Mirror episodes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror#Premise
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_on_Zanzibar (1968)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan's_Run (1967)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_Room!_Make_Room! (1966)
High Technology shouldn't mean that humanity be eventually transformed into a Borg like management and control system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borg#Depiction
All it would take is for one James_Bond movie villain type to devise a way for everyone to submit to a worldwide SOC management system.
https://blogs.idc.com/2024/02/19/the-future-of-next-gen-ai-smartphones
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Labyrinth:_THX_1138_4EB
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THX_1138#Plot ending https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atMdf0rhbpI
Unfortunately, in a worldwide Carbon Credit Quota system, humans could easily become managed and extremely controlled.
"And then: a ladder. THX clasps the rebar rungs and begins the long ascent. The androids are not far behind, THX more aware than most of his pursuers’ irradiated hearts, powering their conviction and inexhaustible drive. And then, suddenly, they stop. At 3,410 units, Central Command has ruled that the expense of THX’s capture now exceeds the allocated budget." https://filmschoolrejects.com/thx-1138-ending-explained
