What will our future be like? The direction the future takes seems to be very clear but, as before, things could change. The time to come will never be revealed until it has actually passed. From this point of view I will try to describe the way in which I see the future approaching us. One of the main aspects when talking about the future is how the law will be managed and how power will be managed. Will we be able to decide for ourselves what we want to do with our lives and will the rights of every individual be respected, as written in the Constitution? I could never be forced to believe otherwise. Our society today is forced to decide whether every Danish citizen should have some sort of card to use for multiple things. Your health insurance, driver's license, personal identification and many other things. Some people say that this is the beginning of a completely government-controlled society where your every move is followed by the administration. The year is 2096. We are at the airport near Copenhagen. Many people are switching with their net-agents. A little computer program that has been trained to tell you about all the things you find interesting. To identify themselves, they insert their city card into the device. An agent is calling our computer on the network. He would like to inform us about all the activities taking place in Copenhagen today, but obviously only about those he knows that might interest us. Agents are a very useful invention created in t...
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