Right now, nations are racing for leadership in the fourth technological revolution, which opens up opportunities for unprecedented digital control over humanity. For millennia, emperors, kings, and pharaohs dreamed of such limitless power, but it was impossible. Now, in the modern era, thanks to a digitized world, billions of surveillance cameras, biometrics, and real-time data registries, it is possible to achieve almost absolute control over every person's life. This means an absolute monopoly on power.<br><br>However, the problem is that to achieve this, the last biological sanctuaries of the wild must be sacrificed. Even now, states are reducing the protected status of reserve systems to extract rare earth elements, without which the creation of these 'brave new world' systems is impossible.<br><br>I am working on my new book about the true madness of the 21st century. The publication of the book in Russian and English is planned for the near future.