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Wojciech Pawelczyk @WojPawelczyk - Fun fact: In his book Limes Inferior, Polish nuclear physicist and science-fiction author Janusz Zajdel predicted social credit score systems, pervasive surveillance via personal devices and central bank digital currencies.
Limes Inferior (published in 1982) is a dystopian science fiction novel set in a fictional city-state called Argoland, where society is rigidly stratified into classes based on IQ test scores, with pervasive control through technology and economic systems. The story follows a protagonist who navigates and uncovers the manipulative underpinnings of this world, including alien influences. While the narrative is fictional, several elements have been noted as remarkably prescient, anticipating modern technologies and societal issues.
The novel depicts a rigid class system (0 to 6) based on IQ test scores, which determines access to jobs, resources, and privileges. Lower classes are marginalized, unemployed, and even subjected to intelligence-suppressing additives ("stupidators") in cheap food. This creates a meritocratic facade that enforces inequality, with black markets for "lifting" or "downing" scores to game the system. It parallels modern social credit systems (e.g., China's, where scores affect opportunities) and algorithmic sorting in hiring or access to services.
Citizens carry "Keys"—biometric devices that serve as IDs, wallets, trackers, and more. They enable constant monitoring through transactions and activations (e.g., fingerprint readers), allowing authorities to audit lives without direct targeting, creating a panopticon-like control. This anticipates smartphone tracking, biometric authentication, and data surveillance in apps or digital IDs.
The economy, which uniquely merges communist central planning (shortages, state control) with capitalist black-market dynamics, uses a tiered digital point system (red for basics, green for mid-tier, yellow for luxuries) stored on Keys, with centralized control, scarcity for lower classes, and black markets for conversions. It's a programmable, tracked currency that restricts access and enables surveillance. This foreshadows CBDCs, digital wallets (e.g., Apple Pay), and programmable money where transactions are monitored.
Overall, what makes Limes Inferior truly unique is its prescient integration of technology into everyday oppression, partially rooted in Zajdel's own experience in Poland under communism, creating a dystopia that's eerily predictive of 21st-century digital control while evading direct political confrontation through SF allegory. This combination wasn't fully replicated in earlier works, making it a landmark in sociopolitical SF.
https://x.com/WojPawelczyk/status/1979887655501365606
Wolf of X @tradingMaxiSL - Sometimes proposals can be funny too
https://x.com/tradingMaxiSL/status/1980188259130257452
X22 Report @X22Report - Ep 3755b - Trump Sets Trap For The Warmongers, Election Rigging Is Going To Be Exposed, Game Over
https://x.com/X22Report/status/1980036925328109853
Xi Van Fleet @XVanFleet - Video: Teaching Hate:
1. Palestine.
2. China — a boy’s violent anti-Japanese outburst after watching a CCP “patriotic” film.
3. America — following the same path.
Different countries, same story.
https://x.com/XVanFleet/status/1980083191990890948
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