Anyone who is familiar with “Star Trek: The Next Generation” should be familiar with the Borg, cybernetic organisms linked through a central hive called the collective. Substitute the word “controlled human” for Borg with the central hive being data centers. America is experiencing a huge surge of data centers, driven by the explosive growth of artificial intelligence, with one goal in mind: replacement of the human species with humanoid robots.

Giant computers housed in data centers are right now monitoring everything people do on their computers, analyzing all cellular transmissions, home utilities, traffic, and automobiles for speed, braking and lane behavior, and collecting data on TV viewing habits, with many TVs having built-in microphones and cameras that listen to conversations.

Self-driving cars and trucks are being built. There go the 900,000-plus truck driving and cabbie jobs. Clerical workers are being replaced at record levels, stores are going to self checkout, toll booth collectors are gone — the list seems endless.

The Georgia Guidestones, recently destroyed, in my opinion by those who constructed them because of the notoriety they drew, had 10 “commandments” written on them in eight languages, with the first being, “Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.” It is my opinion that the motto of the “beings” behind this accelerated thrust to the destruction of mankind is, “resistance is futile, you will have the mark of the beast.”

Joseph Krill

Murrysville