The article depicts a chilling future where the U.S. has taken surveillance to an extreme, leading to innocent people being detained for their dreams. It cites real incidents where individuals, including a New Hampshire engineer and a Harvard medical researcher, faced indefinite detention upon returning home due to algorithmic predictions based on minor infractions. This scenario echoes themes from the author's dystopian novel, The Dream Hotel, which was written during a time of increasing data collection by technology firms, imagining a world where subconscious monitoring could lead to imprisonment.
In a chilling reflection of potential future realities, the article explores themes of surveillance where algorithms could interpret an individual's subconscious, leading to real consequences.
The narrative captured a societal fear of invasive technology and government overreach, highlighting real incidents of wrongful detentions based on minor infractions as eerily prescient.
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