By Thailand is Quickly Becoming a Technocratic State
by Nicolas Creed | Substack
I will preface this roundup by reminding readers that the overwhelming majority of Bangkok’s visible population are walking around like zombies staring at their phones. In the parks, most people just want to find a quiet spot in beautiful nature, to spend quality time with their phones. It is getting more difficult to use cash as vendors rarely have change. People love to pay for things using their phones via QR code scanning with banking apps. Bangkok is ground zero for all things technocratic to be battle tested. There is no resistance. There shall be no resistance. The people love digitaltopia. The populace is fully primed for a fully functioning technocratic society.
I would love to be proven wrong.
MEET ROBOCOP AKA “COLONEL SAFETY”
Via Zerohedge:
Thailand has debuted the world’s first ‘Robocop’ designed to detect and prevent crime with advanced AI.
Equipped with 360-degree cameras for eyes, the cutting-edge cyborg maintains constant surveillance with real-time monitoring. The robocop, named Police Colonel Nakhonpathom Plod Phai, meaning “Nakhonpathom is safe,” was unveiled during the Songkran festival in Nakhon Pathom province on Wednesday. The debut was announced via a Facebook post by the Royal Thai Police, according to a report by The Sun.
The robocop is also able to detect weapons, such as knives and wooden batons. In neighboring China, humanoid robots have started supporting police patrols.
Ah of course, most official announcements are made on anti-social media platforms these days! That’s why I was kept in the dark.
Dear reader, come with me if you want to live…
FACIAL RECOGNITION, TRACKING INDIVIDUALS AND IDENTIFYING SUSPECTS
Prior to the Thai New Year ‘Songkran’ festival, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) announced setting up a ‘safety’ hub of CCTV cameras, using AI video analytics and facial recognition tracking. I suppose doing it for our safety plays better as a trial balloon in gauging public perception, as opposed to announcing they are setting up a panopticon surveillance grid infrastructure contributing towards a dystopian SMART city, whereby everyone is assigned a social credit score.
