One App to Rule Them All: Fascism 2.0 not democracy nor a republic is next.

We're awash in data wealth, information about everybody.  It's cheap and ubiquitous.  And it's getting out of control.   When the struggle for the new wealth settles on a pecking order, a governing body of the elect with a stable of well-heeled corporate satellites will deliver some services of modern society better than ever before.  There will be an app for it.

The mighty who have brokered power are faced with disrupted pecking orders and the self-proclaimed elect are clamouring to get their hands on the new wealth too.  This is bigger than the rediscovery and settlement of the Americas.     The clamour includes regulatory bureaucracies, large businesses, political parties, media stars, a myriad of interest groups within and without the governents and chiefly the enterprise we call "Government".    The winner will be the one with the ultimately superior app.   I'm betting on Government 2.0, a refashioned system of governance that exploits Big Data and can shape behaviour (for our own good) and extract money from every living citizen all the time everywhere.

You know what the good news is?  You get a free cell phone tracker.
You know what "free" means?   You're the product.
A social credit score for good behaviour about vaccinations, an acceptable BMI and a record of pro-government postings on Facebook will let you board planes, sleep in hotels, dine in restaurants, avoid having your internet speed throttled, leave your state or even just travel outside your county.    China is pointing the way.

The winner is going to fold the major corporations and media into what we used to call "government".This is called fascism.   Because it is the new fascism, Fascism 2.0 with a modern look, it will prevail for a time.     Maybe for a generation.

That governing body of the elect with a stable of well-heeled corporate satellites will deliver some services of modern society better than ever before.  The elect will include people who have been elected but also the tenured bureaucracies within governments and the credentialed everywhere who regard their milieu's views as truth.  They will  crush some freedoms that are the engine for innovation and hope.

Ladies and gentlement, I give you "One app to rule them all"