The Third World War Will Be Fought Online. Here’s Why.

If you go to Google.com and type in the query ‘’Third World War’’, it shows you results that states that Third World War is a hypothetical situation, and even if it happens it will be due to military conflicts between nations. If you dig deep, you will find another theory where Scientists are predicting that we might be fighting against Aliens in the Third World War. Thanks to the creative minds in the filmmaking business, there are films that shows humans fighting against Zombies in near future. Unfortunately none of these theories are Completely True, they can be Partly True but not completely. Then what is the truth? The truth is the Third World War is not a situation of the future, It is Happening, Right Now. The best part, We Don’t Even Know That.

Over the years countries like Iran, Syria, Unites States of America, China, India, Pakistan, have led the discussion about a third world war happening. But the reality is they are not fighting Each Other, but Themselves. The Government of these individual nations are not interested in fighting each other, Why? Because it is not beneficial for them. Then where does the benefit lie? The benefit lies in the situation Nation vs Its’s People, definitely not Nation vs Nation. Every government in the world is keeping track of every move made by it’s residents.

In 2014, Indian political party BJP (Bhartiya Janta Party) used Big Data, to win the Indian General Election. They tapped into the cell phones of millions of Indians to understand their behavioral pattern i.e. how often they use their cell phones, when are they most active with their phones, which social media channels they use, what kind of searches they make on Google. Once they had this data, they transformed it into information, which made it easier for them to target people. Needless to say Telecommunication Companies & social media giant Facebook, played a major role in this, because they were the ones providing the data. When it comes to keeping an eye on it’s people, China is setting new heights.

China has developed a mass surveillance system, with the help of which officials can keep an eye on the people 24/7, everywhere they go, even in the public toilets. The Chinese government has installed surveillance cameras practically everywhere, at the back-end of this, the database contains information about every single resident, which they give to the government willingly, while making the Resident Identity Card. If someone is caught doing something against the law, the cameras tracks that person, and with the information they have in their database, they identify exactly who that person is.

If you ask the government why they are doing this, the answer will be something like, to fight terrorism & avoid any situation that is against the law. Ironically the situation we are in right now is by all mean against the law. It is no longer a question of surveillance anymore, it is a question of spying.

When it comes to spying, the government is not the only one doing so, leading organizations of the world are doing exactly this. For instance, if you visit a website for the first time it shows you a notification that states, it uses cookie policy and if you agree to it or not. What you don’t read (and know) is, it doesn’t matter if you agree or not, once you visit the website you are allowing the website to track all your activities online, first they track your Internet Protocol address, which is your identity for them, next they track every movement of yours online, which websites you visit, the kind of content you consume, what are the social media channels you are most active on, which websites you visit the most. This data of yours will help them create their next advertising and marketing campaign.

Facebook is leading the charge in Political Advertising, they are tracking down the data (personal information) of millions of users, and supplying it to political parties. It helps the political parties design specifically targeted campaigns. Something that helped India’s Narendra Modi & USA’s Donald Trump, come into power.

A war is a situation when two opposing parties or groups fight against each other, but this isn’t war, up until now it is only Them attacking Us. When will we retaliate? Very soon. Once the majority of us understand the situation, and how badly it is affecting us, our children, our future, we will answer back. For example, in China & Korea, internet is banned, which restricts communication with the world, the musicians cannot share their music with the world, music streaming websites like Soundcloud, Mixcloud, cannot be accessed, thus they made their own music streaming app. Similarly in a situation of crisis we need to come up with solutions, to fight against the system.

Only one of us answering back isn’t enough, the majority of us needs to come together and fight against the parasites who are benefiting from us. Needless to say they will fight back and try to oppress us, it will bring economic unrest, major conflicts which can eventually lead to loss of lives, and probabilities are they will win, because they are more powerful. But here’s the catch, what makes them powerful is the people working for them, if they can be convinced that what they are doing is affecting their own families, then possibilities are they might go against the system, and fight against it.

The fact that most of us are unaware of this situation is saddening, and the first step for us will be to make people aware of this situation we are in. Once we realize how bad the situation is, it will dawn upon us that we badly need to retaliate and save our future. We already are slaves to the machines we use, we cannot let the government and big organizations to rule us. Democracy is not just a word in the constitution but power to us, power for which we need to fight and go to war, a war that has already begun.