Your phone is listening. Your apps are watching. One billion cameras track your every move. And now the AI knows what to do with it.
This isn’t science fiction. This is your Tuesday.
In this episode of Thinking on Paper, Mark and Jeremy tear into Chapter 7 of Yuval Noah Harari’s Nexus — the surveillance chapter. The one that hits way too close to home.
You’ll hear:
How Iran uses AI to scan for uncovered women
Why the NSA admitted: “We kill people based on metadata”
How TripAdvisor turned waiters into performance captives
What happens when surveillance stops being passive and becomes predictive
Why China’s social credit system might not be so foreign after all
How peer-to-peer surveillance became normal — and who profits
Why Harari says modern tech makes the Stasi look like amateurs
This isn’t paranoia. It’s protocol. You’re living inside the data machine. The only question is: who has the keys?
Don’t have nightmares.
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Timestamps
(00:00) Disruptors and curious minds
(02:04) Apple, Siri And Your €20 Privacy
(03:40) Ceausescu And The Secret Police
(05:24) F.E.A.R
(06:22) Why Does Yuval Reference Dictators In Nexus?
(08:02) A Warning
(11:22 A Ubiquitous Computer Network Powered By You
(14:50) The NSA And Iran
(19:36) The End Of Privacy
(20:56) Tripadvisor And Peer-to-peer surveillance
(24:59) Inflection Point
(26:41) People Control(
28:57) Black Mirror And Hell
(31:06) AI School: No Human In The Loop
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