Our future: A dark possibility

Date: 12 Aug 2020

Bob comes into his house, he looks very worried. He rushes to his
computer. He pulls out a drive and inserts a new one. He switches
on his internet connection and types something. Instantly there appears a
welcome message on the screen "Welcome to windows 2020". On
the next screen he is shown all details about himself and asked to verify
them(All his details came from his IP address). He looks at
the disk in his hand which had a version of linux but since it contained a
cryptography software it was illegal to use it as were all
other Operating Systems except win.
He is interrupted by a phone call. Its from John's wife . Bad news
John's been arrested. Bob learns that John had given the new
record of Pretty Bitches to one of his friends to listen. Bob was quite
shocked he knew John could be an idiot sometimes but this was
too much. He assures John's wife that he would try to pull some strings.
But inside he knew John was in deep trouble. He wondered why he
lent the record. As soon as the record was inserted in the player APA(Anti
Piracy Agency) was informed because the costemer ID on the
album and the player did not match which led to John and his friend's
arrest. He tries to get hold of some people from the record
company to see if they could make a settlement with John.
Thinking of John he recalls the day he was arrested for using PGP in an
email. Any form of cryptography was illegal except skipjack
which could be decrypted by the goverment when they desired. Every form of
communication was intercepted by the goverment which had
developed special AI programs to sense any dangerous messages or any other
illegal content even in voice conversation. DRM(Digital
Rights Management) ruled the lives of people.You could buy nothing without
it bieng enforced.
He is reminded that he has to get rid of his linux disk. He takes it and
throws it into the fireplace.That's the only place where
the law agencies wouldn't get any evidence. Near the fireplace he sees his
picture with his friends from 2006 standing in front of the
University library of course now libraries are a thing of the past.
Libraries had to be closed down since they led to sharing of
copyrighted material which wasn't in the best interest of the authors. The
last time he had been to a library was 2014. Oh good old
days.
Sometimes Bob thought was it worth living, you have no privacy now every
choice you make is decided by someone else. It was even
impossible to say anything against it too. What happened to the free
speech stuff? But now he had got used to it. Time changes a lot of
stuff.

Think this is a joke? I hope it turns out to be but the fact is we are
progressing in that direction. Read these articles you would get
a little idea of what I mean.
Digital rights Management
How NSA was built into windows