Beth

Well, it starts with the simple stuff, the things we willingly accept.

Basic biometrics, you know, tracking your heart rate, your sleep cycles, your physical activity through smartwatch.

Right.

But it scales up so quickly.

We're already seeing citywide camera systems that are linked to AI that analyzes not just who you are, but your emotional state.

It stages everything from, say, anxiety levels to potential aggression, all based on your posture, your gait, your micro expressions.

And maybe the most subtle part is the predictive algorithms.

Always.

They're anticipating your future desires, your purchase needs, maybe even predicting health crises years in advance.

And it's all based on this massive, constant data collection.

You can't.

And that elimination, that's the real root of the problem we're talking about today.

We are becoming or, you know, we might already be the first generation of humans who are never truly allowed to be alone.

Never unrecorded.

And this is the crucial part.

Never allowed to fail quietly or make a mistake without it being logged, quantified and potentially optimized right out of your behavior profile.

Well, the immediate psychological consequence is a really demonstrable increase in chronic anxiety.

It's that low hum of knowing you are always being judged or analyzed.

Right.

But the more profound loss is this erosion of genuine human spontaneity.