IBOV 176,564.75 ▲ 0.70% IPSA 10,879.65 ▼ 0.77% IPC MEX 67,307.54 ▲ 0.22% MERVAL 3,256,362 ▼ 1.48% COLCAP 2,301.24 ▲ 0.80% BVL PERÚ 57,237.60 — — USD/BRL5.13▲ 0.18% USD/MXN17.44▼ 0.06% USD/CLP932.73▼ 0.76% USD/COP3,202▼ 0.47% USD/PEN3.39▼ 0.28% USD/ARS1,499▲ 0.15% USD/UYU40.20▲ 1.42% USD/PYG6,020▲ 1.46% USD/BOB11.30▲ 3.36% USD/DOP57.77▲ 0.38% USD/CRC449.99▲ 1.60% USD/GTQ7.62▲ 2.22% USD/HNL26.76▲ 1.54% USD/NIO36.62▲ 0.69% USD/VES742.37▲ 0.14% USD/PAB1.00— 0.00% USD/BZD2.00— 0.00% USD/JMD157.27▲ 0.12% USD/TTD6.75▲ 1.25% EUR/BRL5.84▲ 0.92% BRENT 87.21 ▲ 3.71% WTI 82.27 ▲ 3.80% IRON ORE 161.91 — — COPPER 6.32 ▲ 0.01% GOLD 4,030 ▼ 0.16% SILVER 57.91 ▲ 1.06% SOY 1,216 ▲ 0.33% CORN 481.25 ▲ 4.96% WHEAT 669.25 ▲ 1.02% COFFEE 340.50 ▲ 4.91% SUGAR 14.56 ▼ 0.14% ORANGE JUICE 136.30 ▼ 3.64% COTTON 81.08 ▲ 2.19% COCOA 5,206 ▲ 2.08% BEEF 222.18 ▼ 1.35% CATTLE 337.23 ▼ 0.30% LITHIUM 66.96 ▼ 2.43% PETR4 41.21 ▲ 0.49% VALE3 75.69 — 0.00% ITUB4 42.86 ▲ 0.40% BBDC4 18.77 ▲ 0.32% ABEV3 16.10 ▲ 1.51% BBAS3 20.83 ▲ 1.61% B3SA3 16.00 ▲ 1.78% WEGE3 46.70 ▲ 0.65% PRIO3 56.77 ▲ 1.90% SUZB3 43.10 ▲ 2.94% RENT3 38.37 ▲ 1.72% AZZA3 17.15 ▲ 0.23% CSAN3 4.00 ▲ 1.27% RAIZ4 0.27 ▲ 3.85% PCAR3 2.74 — 0.00% GMAT3 3.92 ▲ 2.35% PSSA3 54.91 ▲ 1.14% CVCB3 1.32 ▼ 2.94% POSI3 3.60 ▲ 2.27% SLCE3 13.16 ▼ 1.64% NATU3 8.34 ▼ 1.77% BRKM5 5.96 ▼ 1.97% RANI3 8.13 ▲ 2.52% CSNA3 5.64 ▼ 1.23% CMIN3 5.96 ▲ 2.76% USIM5 8.69 ▲ 0.93% GGBR4 25.14 ▲ 2.70% ENEV3 25.85 ▲ 1.49% CPFE3 45.96 ▲ 2.70% CMIG4 11.19 ▲ 0.18% EQTL3 38.83 ▲ 0.08% LREN3 13.90 ▲ 1.24% VIVT3 33.83 ▼ 6.31% RAIL3 14.08 ▲ 2.03% KLABIN 18.04 ▲ 2.04% RAIA DROGASIL 18.20 ▲ 0.17% RDOR3 34.32 ▲ 2.14% HAPV3 10.60 ▲ 4.02% FLRY3 17.06 ▲ 3.21% SMTO3 14.30 ▼ 2.52% UGPA3 32.45 ▲ 1.12% VBBR3 35.13 ▲ 1.83% BBSE3 41.21 ▲ 1.65% BPAC11 55.84 ▲ 0.52% CURY3 30.10 ▼ 0.95% AERI3 2.09 ▲ 1.95% VIVARA 22.61 ▲ 2.73% COMPASS 25.22 ▼ 0.32% VAMOS 3.33 ▲ 5.05% SANB11 27.67 ▲ 1.13% ASAI3 8.24 ▲ 1.60% SBSP3 28.27 ▼ 2.08% WALMEX 48.74 ▲ 0.70% GMEXICO 209.28 ▼ 0.11% FEMSA 222.17 ▼ 3.83% CEMEX 20.99 ▼ 1.78% GFNORTE 199.12 ▲ 1.37% BIMBO 59.50 ▲ 0.66% TELEVISA 9.86 ▼ 0.20% AMX 22.48 ▲ 0.09% GAP 379.13 ▲ 0.93% ASUR 271.18 ▲ 0.97% OMA 235.27 ▲ 2.85% KOF 189.82 ▲ 0.07% GRUMA 268.00 ▼ 0.20% KIMBER 40.66 ▲ 1.85% SQM-B 62,500 ▼ 3.33% COPEC 6,300 ▲ 0.82% BSANTANDER 79.12 ▼ 2.04% FALABELLA 6,101 ▼ 0.88% ENELAM 85.80 ▼ 0.10% CENCOSUD 1,900 ▼ 0.78% CMPC 1,035 ▼ 0.43% BANCO CHILE 189.10 ▼ 2.15% LATAM AIR 25.00 ▲ 1.63% YPF 79,525 ▼ 2.09% GGAL 7,855 ▼ 1.32% PAMPA 5,450 ▼ 0.46% TXAR 674.00 — 0.00% ALUAR 988.00 ▲ 0.36% TGS 9,465 ▼ 2.52% CEPU 2,335 ▼ 2.01% MIRGOR 16,525 ▼ 1.78% COME 42.52 ▲ 0.14% LOMA NEGRA 3,650 ▼ 1.55% BYMA 302.75 — 0.00% TELECOM ARG 4,335 ▼ 3.45% ECOPETROL 15.83 ▲ 0.19% BANCOLOMBIA 89.07 ▲ 1.30% GRUPO AVAL 4.93 ▲ 2.28% CREDICORP 389.39 ▼ 0.41% SOUTHERN COPPER 178.96 ▼ 0.20% BUENAVENTURA 30.35 ▼ 4.32% MERCADOLIBRE 1,863 ▲ 2.35% NUBANK 14.68 ▲ 1.03% XP 16.80 ▲ 0.36% PAGSEGURO 9.61 ▲ 2.45% STONE 11.16 ▲ 2.48% GLOBANT 35.11 ▲ 7.57% TECNOGLASS 47.22 ▲ 4.05% GAP AIRPORT 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4,030 ▼ 0.16% SILVER 57.91 ▲ 1.06% SOY 1,216 ▲ 0.33% CORN 481.25 ▲ 4.96% WHEAT 669.25 ▲ 1.02% COFFEE 340.50 ▲ 4.91% SUGAR 14.56 ▼ 0.14% ORANGE JUICE 136.30 ▼ 3.64% COTTON 81.08 ▲ 2.19% COCOA 5,206 ▲ 2.08% BEEF 222.18 ▼ 1.35% CATTLE 337.23 ▼ 0.30% LITHIUM 66.96 ▼ 2.43% PETR4 41.21 ▲ 0.49% VALE3 75.69 — 0.00% ITUB4 42.86 ▲ 0.40% BBDC4 18.77 ▲ 0.32% ABEV3 16.10 ▲ 1.51% BBAS3 20.83 ▲ 1.61% B3SA3 16.00 ▲ 1.78% WEGE3 46.70 ▲ 0.65% PRIO3 56.77 ▲ 1.90% SUZB3 43.10 ▲ 2.94% RENT3 38.37 ▲ 1.72% AZZA3 17.15 ▲ 0.23% CSAN3 4.00 ▲ 1.27% RAIZ4 0.27 ▲ 3.85% PCAR3 2.74 — 0.00% GMAT3 3.92 ▲ 2.35% PSSA3 54.91 ▲ 1.14% CVCB3 1.32 ▼ 2.94% POSI3 3.60 ▲ 2.27% SLCE3 13.16 ▼ 1.64% NATU3 8.34 ▼ 1.77% BRKM5 5.96 ▼ 1.97% RANI3 8.13 ▲ 2.52% CSNA3 5.64 ▼ 1.23% CMIN3 5.96 ▲ 2.76% USIM5 8.69 ▲ 0.93% GGBR4 25.14 ▲ 2.70% ENEV3 25.85 ▲ 1.49% CPFE3 45.96 ▲ 2.70% CMIG4 11.19 ▲ 0.18% EQTL3 38.83 ▲ 0.08% LREN3 13.90 ▲ 1.24% VIVT3 33.83 ▼ 6.31% RAIL3 14.08 ▲ 2.03% KLABIN 18.04 ▲ 2.04% RAIA DROGASIL 18.20 ▲ 0.17% RDOR3 34.32 ▲ 2.14% HAPV3 10.60 ▲ 4.02% FLRY3 17.06 ▲ 3.21% SMTO3 14.30 ▼ 2.52% UGPA3 32.45 ▲ 1.12% VBBR3 35.13 ▲ 1.83% BBSE3 41.21 ▲ 1.65% BPAC11 55.84 ▲ 0.52% CURY3 30.10 ▼ 0.95% AERI3 2.09 ▲ 1.95% VIVARA 22.61 ▲ 2.73% COMPASS 25.22 ▼ 0.32% VAMOS 3.33 ▲ 5.05% SANB11 27.67 ▲ 1.13% ASAI3 8.24 ▲ 1.60% SBSP3 28.27 ▼ 2.08% WALMEX 48.74 ▲ 0.70% GMEXICO 209.28 ▼ 0.11% FEMSA 222.17 ▼ 3.83% CEMEX 20.99 ▼ 1.78% GFNORTE 199.12 ▲ 1.37% BIMBO 59.50 ▲ 0.66% TELEVISA 9.86 ▼ 0.20% AMX 22.48 ▲ 0.09% GAP 379.13 ▲ 0.93% ASUR 271.18 ▲ 0.97% OMA 235.27 ▲ 2.85% KOF 189.82 ▲ 0.07% GRUMA 268.00 ▼ 0.20% KIMBER 40.66 ▲ 1.85% SQM-B 62,500 ▼ 3.33% COPEC 6,300 ▲ 0.82% BSANTANDER 79.12 ▼ 2.04% FALABELLA 6,101 ▼ 0.88% ENELAM 85.80 ▼ 0.10% CENCOSUD 1,900 ▼ 0.78% CMPC 1,035 ▼ 0.43% BANCO CHILE 189.10 ▼ 2.15% LATAM AIR 25.00 ▲ 1.63% YPF 79,525 ▼ 2.09% GGAL 7,855 ▼ 1.32% PAMPA 5,450 ▼ 0.46% TXAR 674.00 — 0.00% ALUAR 988.00 ▲ 0.36% TGS 9,465 ▼ 2.52% CEPU 2,335 ▼ 2.01% MIRGOR 16,525 ▼ 1.78% COME 42.52 ▲ 0.14% LOMA NEGRA 3,650 ▼ 1.55% 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Reality has had its day: Nokia CEO announced at WEF to implant devices directly into our bodies

By · June 7, 2022 · 3 min read

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RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL -The days of the smartphone are numbered, found Pekka Lundmark, CEO of Finnish telecommunications company Nokia, at this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos.

Soon, devices would be “built directly into our bodies,” which would eventually enable total surveillance as a pleasant side effect as well. Holograms and subsequently the metaverse would also gain massively in importance – while reality would lose relevance.

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Indeed, according to Lundmark, the upcoming 6G mobile communications standard should be ready for the market by 2030. By then, the smartphone should have been largely displaced in his eyes: “The smartphone as we know it today will no longer be the most common interface,” he predicted. Instead, the devices of the future will be “built right into our bodies.”

Thanks to new types of sensors that allow permanent monitoring of body values, the healthcare system should also be revolutionized at the same time. Whether citizens want this or not does not seem to matter. Brain sensors, on the other hand, will make it possible to control machines, according to Lundmark.

By 2030, there should be a “digital twin” of just about everything and everyone- but for that to happen, mobile networks would have to be 100 or 1,000 times faster than they are today. The entire global economy would also have to be digitized (as things stand, about 70 percent of it is still missing).

What the Nokia chief however has not mentioned is that, if everything has a digital twin connected to what amounts to an AI supercomputer, the need for human jobs is going to become largely obsolete at lightning speed.

So the next question that follows is: What is the System planning to do with billions of suddenly useless people?

As Yuval Noah Harari, the prophet of the world’s elite so aptly put it, these useless people will probably be kept busy with “drugs and video games.”

INCREASING IRRELEVANCE OF PHYSICAL REALITY

Lundmark also made reference to the growing importance of holograms at the World Economic Forum in Davos – for example, thanks to special VR glasses, people would no longer have to actually be in the same room to talk “face to face,” but could be on different continents.

This anticipation of the growing role of virtual reality, and, as a consequence, of the “metaverse,” a new digital reality, as it were, which the by a single entity – preferably itself, of course, should give ordinary citizens pause for thought.

This anticipation of the growing role of virtual reality and, as a consequence, of the “metaverse,” a new digital reality that the WEF would like to see controlled by a single entity – preferably, of course, itself – should give ordinary citizens pause for thought.

What we know so far from science fiction works by Phil K. Dick or the TV series “Black Mirror” seems to be quite desirable in the opinion of the self-proclaimed elites. Whether they can implement it the way they desire is, of course, another question. No wonder – one Twitterer already raised the question in response to Lundmark’s predictions:

https://twitter.com/capitaliztpigs/status/1531395143097409538

Probably not, because freedom only exists in reality – not in a fully controlled and surveilled copy of it. In any case, the WEF has already launched an initiative to define and build the Metaverse according to the globalists’ ideas:

“A recently launched World Economic Forum initiative, Defining and Building the Metaverse, will aim to address some of these governance issues. Looking at the economic opportunities, regulatory frameworks, and technology choices that will be made as the metaverse comes to life, the initiative will consider how to develop principles for governing the metaverse with this holistic perspective in mind.”

Let’s hope that we will never move beyond wishful thinking here.

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