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Ray's avatar

as ive said many times the key will be taking out the internet

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“Smart” control in this context, e.g., economy, environment, society means pre-programmed decision matrices, and, therefore, not really “smart” but driven by a specific set of pre-selected, , input parameters and desirable (to a select few) values assigned to such parameters in order to achieve certain goals. The intelligent part comes from feed-back loops for refining the decision matrices, but in this case refining to meet desired objects of control. “Smart” in all the contexts here, and there are many, is simply a synonym for monitored control via pre-selected criteria to insure a pre-planned outcome - control. Tried to make it as clear as I could, not necessarily achieving it.

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