July 2026

Fourth Amendment? Forget it! Roughly two-thirds of the U.S. population, or about 200 to 213 million people, lives within U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) 100-mile border enforcement zone. Your smartphone can now be manually searched without cause or suspicion, and without a warrant. For most people, a fingerprint or a facial scan unlocks your phone instantly.

Oh, the thrill of it. Enter, Flock's autonomous drone. Sixty miles per hour, continuous snaps of your license plate from 2,000 feet away, and everyone around you, to boot. Instantly integrated into Flock's master database of 50 million other cars. Bonus card: Alpha streams thermal and high-definition video directly to dispatchers. Flock was founded with venture capital from Arch-Technocrat Marc Andreessen.

"This is the unvarnished reality of existence in 2026: privacy didn’t merely erode—it was systematically dismantled, commodified, and fed into machine learning systems that predict your behavior before you conceive the thought. Eight billion souls now exist beneath an invisible dome of perpetual observation, each breath monitored, each heartbeat catalogued, each flicker of dissent intercepted before consciousness fully forms it."