As we entered 2026, we began seeing skyrocketing prices for storage, RAM, and GPUs. This resembles a mafia-style collusion by big tech on a scale we have never experienced in our lifetimes. This year is a make-or-break moment for how AI will shape humanity for the next millennium. We are witnessing, in real time, major technology companies that produce both software and hardware acting in clear coordination against humanity as a whole. Many would argue that this is “only” a strategic and systematic choking campaign aimed at consumers and prosumers—the middle class—designed to control access to AI computing and force all AI-based workloads into the cloud. This effectively turns every human user into a fully controlled, closely studied beta tester and an unpaid AI trainer, often without direct consent or even awareness. But this is only the tip of the iceberg. AI is here to stay. Nearly all human interactions and actions across devices will soon occur in partnership with AI systems, giant technology platforms, and pervasive surveillance algorithms. We have already seen how little large tech corporations respected copyrights, creative licensing, patents, intellectual property, and other legal frameworks that once allowed individuals to grow, develop, and rise through the social hierarchy—when they vacuumed up vast amounts of human creativity, intelligence, and expression to train their models. The middle class is now little more than a shell, and what remains is being extracted through forced AI integration. Your actions, thoughts, opinions, and clicks are computed in real time, approaching near-total predictability. This means you are increasingly understood, mapped, and rendered predictable in your behavior, potential, and capabilities. In other words, we have crossed from a “store and analyze later” surveillance era into one where data is stored, analyzed instantly, and used to construct a continuous profile of each individual’s past, present, and future self. If you do not demand access to sufficiently powerful local computing—and instead accept being forced into cloud-based AI systems—you must recognize the consequences. You are effectively surrendering what may be your last fundamental human right: autonomy, also known as the right to self-determination.

As we entered 2026, we began seeing skyrocketing prices for storage, RAM, and GPUs. This resembles a mafia-style collusion by big tech on a scale we have never experienced in our lifetimes. This year is a make-or-break moment for how AI will shape humanity for the next millennium. We are witnessing, in real time, major technology companies that produce both software and hardware acting in clear coordination against humanity as a whole. Many would argue that this is “only” a strategic and systematic choking campaign aimed at consumers and prosumers—the middle class—designed to control access to AI computing and force all AI-based workloads into the cloud. This effectively turns every human user into a fully controlled, closely studied beta tester and an unpaid AI trainer, often without direct consent or even awareness. But this is only the tip of the iceberg. AI is here to stay. Nearly all human interactions and actions across devices will soon occur in partnership with AI systems, giant technology platforms, and pervasive surveillance algorithms. We have already seen how little large tech corporations respected copyrights, creative licensing, patents, intellectual property, and other legal frameworks that once allowed individuals to grow, develop, and rise through the social hierarchy—when they vacuumed up vast amounts of human creativity, intelligence, and expression to train their models. The middle class is now little more than a shell, and what remains is being extracted through forced AI integration. Your actions, thoughts, opinions, and clicks are computed in real time, approaching near-total predictability. This means you are increasingly understood, mapped, and rendered predictable in your behavior, potential, and capabilities. In other words, we have crossed from a “store and analyze later” surveillance era into one where data is stored, analyzed instantly, and used to construct a continuous profile of each individual’s past, present, and future self. If you do not demand access to sufficiently powerful local computing—and instead accept being forced into cloud-based AI systems—you must recognize the consequences. You are effectively surrendering what may be your last fundamental human right: autonomy, also known as the right to self-determination.

in 2026 either you own the tech stack and the hardware on which you are hosting your AI automation or you are exploited for data, for knowledge and gated. Are you not smart enough to understand that in 2026 your data and your actions are the only value left. each person's actions and knowledge is converted into a product aka GPP (Gross Personal Product not Gross Domestic Product)

what ai automations you cant leave without. share it. my top 5 are: 1. email autoreply based on pretrained data. all of my email is first being checked and answered by AI powered automation before I ever see an email. 2. social autoreply based on pretrained data. all of my socials (x, Instagram, youtube) comments and messages are being answer by AI 3. lead enrichment and booking. every potential customer goes through a funnel that is then processed by AI to be determined if this customer I can help before they are allowed to buy any of my services or book a consultation/call with me. 4. lead generation on linkedin, reddit, x, twitter, youtube, wordpress all of the content is being generated based on a single document and formatted, regenerated, scheduled and posted by the AI automation. 5. automation of free tier products and services. i offer many services for free and most of these services, digital products, designs, files, ebooks are being edited, shared, emailed, delivered by the ai automation.

we are looking to improve and update our ai voice agents. we are looking to hire someone that has experience building using open source and can be self/local hosted ai voice automations. the system must beat 6cents per minute for inbound or outbound calls. if you are interested respond back with specifics , like the tech stack you are thinking of proposing, and what open source solutions you propose to use so you can meet our cost per minute target.