Opinion

The road to techno-hell

Conspiracy theorists and modern Luddites aren`t the only technophobes.

07 July 2002

According to an article on the Net by a chap named Texe Marrs, the soccer World Cup is merely an excuse to build stadiums that can be used as antennae for controlling the human race. Bill Gates is in on the game, using his wealth to inject nanorobots into the children of the world, under the philanthropic guise of providing vaccines. The plot is so simple that I`m surprised the world`s population hasn`t noticed it before, taking to the streets of Japan and Korea to tear down these alien antennae to save us from domination by some evil unnamed power.

Conspiracy theorists today have a much wider arsenal from which to draw their plots than generations past, thanks to the misunderstood and seemingly all-powerful technology that now rules the world. They also garner support from people who feel financially threatened by the machine – a concern since the industrial revolution.

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