Will we be legally obliged to own a smartphone? I do own one, but if some clerk or official asks, I do not, because my main calling phone is not a smartphone. Also, I do not have any government or official apps installed even on my secondary phone.
If government makes smartphone ownership mandatory, I'd like to get it for free, please... and if anyone wants to make me buy one myself, then sorry, I'm veeery poor and simply can't afford it (wink, wink). (That said, of course I understand that they do have their ways to force people. This is just an idea of a strategy one might try to use when the time comes.)
Probably. Everyone on welfare already has one. They’ll let you get by with a physical card for a few years, but by 2035 every cell phone being sold will have direct access to the satellite phone network grid being built, so cards won’t be allowed after that.
If government makes smartphone ownership mandatory, I'd like to get it for free, please
Obviously they’ll just give it to you. Every single action you take with it will be directly monitored and controlled.
Probably... we'll see. There's also an option to divide your life in two. If they really force you use completely cotrolled and monitored device, then it should be used only for official government business and nothing else at all. Everything else should be done on a different device and from different accounts. This is not optimal, just one of the possible options that comes to my mind.
Will we be legally obliged to own a smartphone? I do own one, but if some clerk or official asks, I do not, because my main calling phone is not a smartphone. Also, I do not have any government or official apps installed even on my secondary phone.
If government makes smartphone ownership mandatory, I'd like to get it for free, please... and if anyone wants to make me buy one myself, then sorry, I'm veeery poor and simply can't afford it (wink, wink). (That said, of course I understand that they do have their ways to force people. This is just an idea of a strategy one might try to use when the time comes.)
Probably. Everyone on welfare already has one. They’ll let you get by with a physical card for a few years, but by 2035 every cell phone being sold will have direct access to the satellite phone network grid being built, so cards won’t be allowed after that.
Obviously they’ll just give it to you. Every single action you take with it will be directly monitored and controlled.
Probably... we'll see. There's also an option to divide your life in two. If they really force you use completely cotrolled and monitored device, then it should be used only for official government business and nothing else at all. Everything else should be done on a different device and from different accounts. This is not optimal, just one of the possible options that comes to my mind.