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00:00Is this the last generation of people that are going to know what it was like before this illusion took place?
00:06Hey, hola y bienvenidos a WatchMojo Español.
00:09Yo soy G, y hoy haremos un recuento de las cosas más distópicas que han sucedido desde el año 2000.
00:15Despite existing pledges, greenhouse gas emissions are still set to rise by 16% from 2010 levels by 2030.
00:23Número 20. Censura y prohibiciones de internet.
00:27It's no secret that China doesn't shy away from a bit of censorship,
00:32whether it be music, Hollywood blockbusters, or even live TV.
00:57They close internet access during protests or silence dissident opinions.
01:02Only in 2024 have there been dozens of prohibitions in countries like Sudan, India, and Iran
01:08that have applied some kind of national censorship online.
01:11There could be a range of punishments, including the intermediaries such as Facebook or Twitter
01:17could be liable themselves for the content that's posted on these websites.
01:22Now that's a very worrying development.
01:23Este tipo de regulación nos trae a la mente el libro 1984,
01:28donde la información está estrictamente regulada y controlada por un estado omnipotente.
01:33It's the freedom to say 2 plus 2 equals 4.
01:38If that is grounded, all else follows.
01:42Número 19. Codicia corporativa.
01:45With these policies, the companies that buy these want the employees to die in accordance with the policy projections.
01:52You are more valuable dead to a company than alive.
01:56Odiar a las corporaciones no es nada nuevo, pero parece que el problema ha seguido empeorando.
02:01El afán del lucro establece que el único objetivo de una empresa es ganar dinero y aumentar su patrimonio neto.
02:06Y esta filosofía se ha enfrentado a intensas críticas en los últimos años.
02:10La búsqueda incesante de la riqueza ocasiona la explotación de los trabajadores,
02:15la violación de los derechos humanos, la destrucción de los recursos naturales,
02:19y el aumento de la desigualdad económica.
02:21Customers will note that there is almost an exact price matching among all major so-called competitors,
02:30tanto si se trata de empresas farmacéuticas que aumentan los precios de medicamentos vitales
02:36como de gigantes tecnológicos que lucran con los datos personales,
02:40la codicia corporativa se ha convertido en un tema emblemático de nuestro tiempo.
02:45El poeta Shirley lo dijo mejor, los ricos se hacen más ricos, y los pobres más pobres.
02:51We have never seen in this country the level of corporate greed that we are seeing right now.
03:00Unprecedented.
03:01Número 18. La crisis de agua de Flint.
03:04I noticed that the water was brown all the time, or that we were always getting rashes,
03:10and I don't know, it was like the water was just messing our skin up big time.
03:16Unless you work in the sector, it is most likely that you have no idea how the water gets to your house.
03:22You just trust that the pipes work and that the water is clean.
03:26It is one of the advantages of living in the 21st century.
03:29The Flint water crisis undoubtedly put these comforts.
03:33The crisis was triggered in the city of Flint, Michigan.
03:36It changed its water source to save money and ended up poisoning its inhabitants with lead.
03:42In other words, they were willing to wait a year to see whether the water was safe.
03:48All the while, highly corrosive river water flowed through the city's lead pipes,
03:52leaching lead and other dangerous metals into the water supply.
03:56The government's negligence caused widespread health problems among residents,
04:01such as delays in the development of children and an increase in lead-related diseases,
04:07including 12 deaths from legionellosis.
04:10It is a reminder that not even basic needs are guaranteed under incompetent leadership.
04:22Number 17. Forest fires in Australia in 2019-2020.
04:41Between June 2019 and May 2020, much of southeastern Australia experienced what is now known as the black summer.
04:49The country faced exceptionally dry conditions due to an intense heat wave,
04:54which worsened due to climate change,
04:56allowing the initial fires to spread rapidly throughout the region.
05:11After months of uncontrollable flames, more than 3,000 homes were destroyed,
05:16hundreds of people died and some endangered animals disappeared.
05:21It was a direct confrontation with how climate change can affect our world indiscriminately,
05:28and the visual effects seemed to come from an apocalyptic movie.
05:33I spend most of my nights laying in bed working out the best plan of attack,
05:36how we can get people back up and going and back on their feet again.
05:39Number 16. The Cambridge Analytica Facebook scandal.
05:43If you messaged anybody this week, would you share with us the names of the people you've messaged?
05:50Senator, no, I would probably not choose to do that publicly here.
05:53A consultant steals personal information from Internet users and then sells it to political parties,
05:59hoping to influence the elections.
06:01It looks like the propaganda of a dystopian novel, but it is the sad reality we are facing.
06:07Cambridge Analytica stole 87 million Facebook profiles
06:11and then sold this information to the presidential campaigns of Ted Cruz and Donald Trump.
06:17They had profiles from numerous datasets on more than 230 million Americans,
06:23or so Cambridge Analytica boasts.
06:26He revealed how far they exploit personal data, not to mention what he discovered,
06:32how social networks can be used to manipulate public opinion,
06:36influence elections and erode privacy rights.
06:40Facebook was fined 5 billion dollars for the infraction.
06:44But something tells us that this type of misuse of data will continue without a doubt.
07:01Number 15. Segmented ads.
07:04It may seem like they're listening to us, but it's just because they have so much information on us
07:09that they don't need to listen to us.
07:34As useful as they may seem, after all, maybe we need that campaign store,
07:38many people consider that this type of personalized ads are incredibly creepy and even dystopian.
07:45It's a reality that we used to only imagine within the confines of science fiction.
07:50Stories about invasive technology and the ways it slowly intrudes into our lives
07:57Number 14. The opioid epidemic.
08:09In many cases, the opioid epidemic is not just a disease,
08:13it's a problem that affects us all.
08:15It's a problem that affects us all.
08:17It's a problem that affects us all.
08:19It's a problem that affects us all.
08:21Many people here have terrible skin-rotting wounds from the drug.
08:25In many dystopian stories, citizenship in general is subdued to addiction
08:29and subjected to the dangerous effects of a specific drug.
08:33These drugs are opioids and are becoming a serious problem.
08:37Although technically the epidemic began in the late 90s,
08:41the death rate has skyrocketed in recent years
08:44and has doubled between 2016 and 2022.
08:49Testing is paramount to be able to better support people who are using the substances
08:54and funding for those initiatives are really, really important in the work that we do.
08:59More than 80,000 Americans died from opioid overdose in 2022
09:04and many more in other countries.
09:06The main drug is fentanyl, which recently surpassed heroin
09:10as the main cause of death from overdose in the United States.
09:14Fentanyl is a drug that is very good at managing pain.
09:19The day when they prescribed that, it changed everything for me.
09:27North Korea tells its citizens many defectors are actually abduction victims
09:32taken by the enemy, forced to betray their homeland.
09:44The government commits violations of human rights on a daily basis,
09:48from forced labor camps to political repression and massive surveillance.
09:53The regime maintains absolute control over its people.
09:57I am sorry that the relationship between Korea and the United States is not good.
10:02However, Korea and the people of Korea are my friends
10:06and I think it is my duty to respect the enemy. Thank you.
10:11Since then, they have used the COVID-19 pandemic as a pretext for these measures,
10:17establishing border restrictions and travel to avoid flights.
10:21With a total lack of expression, massive censorship
10:24and even the impossibility of moving between provinces,
10:27in North Korea there are practically no personal freedoms.
10:40Number 12. The rise of hate speech and extremist violence.
10:45We are loud and proud, we are not going anywhere.
10:47We are an American organization and our membership represents this.
10:51The Internet allows both good and bad to flourish,
10:54and that includes a significant increase in the incitement to hate.
10:58It is believed that one in three Internet users has been the subject of some kind of incitement,
11:02and this problem does not show signs of decrease.
11:05In fact, it has worsened.
11:07According to a study, the use of hate speech on Twitter
11:10almost doubled after Elon Musk bought the site in 2022.
11:26It is terrible to imagine, but online platforms have become a breeding ground
11:31for hate groups that use social media as a tool to spread their ideologies.
11:36This danger has even leaked outside the Internet,
11:39with terrible acts of extremist violence that have occurred in cities like El Paso and Colorado Springs.
11:51Number 11. The housing crisis.
12:00Everyone wants a stable home, but that is increasingly difficult to achieve.
12:04Many countries are currently suffering from a great housing crisis,
12:08and many people cannot afford it.
12:10Or even worse, they cannot find shelter.
12:13Prices have skyrocketed in recent years, and salaries have remained frustratingly stagnant.
12:19This lack of affordable housing has left many people without the possibility of finding a suitable accommodation.
12:25The Department of Housing and Urban Development says President Biden's American Rescue Plan
12:29has helped more than 50,000 people experiencing homelessness, but acknowledges more work must be done.
12:55It reminds us of hundreds of dystopian stories.
13:11Number 10. Telephone addiction and social media.
13:14Of course they look at what you've liked and commented on in the past,
13:17but they also look at a whole range of other factors like dwell time,
13:21so how long you spend looking at a particular piece of content in your feed.
13:45Favorite app?
13:46I'd probably say I like TikTok.
13:48TikTok.
13:49Instagram.
13:50Instagram.
13:51Ah, we have a divide.
14:15We're training and conditioning a whole new generation of people
14:22that when we are uncomfortable, or lonely, or uncertain, or afraid,
14:28we have a digital pacifier for ourselves.
14:34I'm just saying.
14:35Just saying, just what?
14:36We're American, okay?
14:40Okay.
14:41What kind of American are you?
14:44Politics is supposed to be polarizing,
14:47but many countries are often run by two parties
14:50in rotation with different ideological beliefs.
14:53But that's not what we're talking about.
14:55Political polarization has increased in recent years,
14:59as societies are more divided on ideological lines.
15:03According to the Pew Research Center,
15:05very unfavorable opinions towards the opposite party are currently at their peak.
15:10The coverage of the protests really fell into the template
15:14that media have always used for protests,
15:17which typically is media frame it as a clash between order and chaos.
15:41The more we do something for others,
15:43the less it will be about my stand and what I think.
15:50When it comes to fighting trolls with clear intentions of spreading false information,
15:54it gets a bit more challenging.
15:56That was seen in a number of different ways ahead of the 2018 U.S. midterm election.
16:10Oceania is at war with East Asia.
16:13Oceania has always been at war with East Asia.
16:41Pew Research even published a report
16:44in which it states that one in four Americans
16:47has spread false information on the Internet.
16:50The results could be catastrophic.
17:10With new inventions come new problems.
17:12Cyberattacks were unthinkable even 100 years ago,
17:16and now they are an important problem around the world.
17:19There are all kinds of cyberattacks,
17:21from the simple theft of a credit card
17:23to massive hacking, not to mention cyberbullying,
17:26which almost half of teenagers have admitted to having committed.
17:30Sophisticated hacking attempts have become commonplace,
17:34including the attack on Ashley Madison
17:36that ruined lives and the famous hack of Sony in 2014.
17:40And then over here we have basically the Sony hack.
17:48Not even politicians are safe.
17:51For example, members of the Canadian parliament
17:53were a personal target of Chinese hackers in 2021.
17:57These attacks compromise personal data,
17:59ruin national security efforts,
18:02and demonstrate the fragility of virtual data,
18:05which sounds like key ingredients of a dystopia.
18:19Number 6. Economic inequality.
18:22I can't wait to give this to my children.
18:25One thing it says is that wealth begets wealth.
18:28Turn one million into eight, raise your hand if you want to take that deal.
18:52With wealth concentrated in the hands of a few,
18:55while many struggle to meet their basic needs.
19:13This disparity creates social divisions depending on the classes
19:17and limits the opportunities to climb the economic ladder.
19:20In addition to causing social unrest,
19:22the middle class is disappearing before our eyes
19:25and a large part of the country's total income
19:28will come from a few pennies.
19:31As you can see in this neighborhood, it's not a lot of funds.
19:36So a lot of people don't have insurance to go.
19:39And if they are sick, they don't want to go to an emergency room
19:42because they don't have it to pay.
19:44Number 5. The COVID-19 pandemic.
19:48I walk into the room, I say, hey, sounds like you have COVID.
19:51And I might order a chest x-ray, I might order blood work,
19:53I might order catheters.
20:18The problem facing health services across the world
20:20is that when the infection curve goes up, it rockets.
20:24And all the resources, all the testing, all the supplies are used up instantly.
20:48On the Canary Islands, off the eastern coast of Africa,
20:51more than a thousand tourists are trapped in a hotel
20:54because an Italian guest came down with the virus.
21:00Biologists fear the unthinkable.
21:02Three quarters of all known species could disappear
21:05in just a couple centuries.
21:18Scientists have identified the key ways in which we humans
21:21are destroying the ecosystems on which we depend.
21:47One in three species of all kinds face global extinction
21:51or have been driven to extinction.
21:53It's a number much higher than previous estimates
21:56and a cause for concern globally.
21:58Number 3. Climate change.
22:00In many ways, it is magnifying the effects of climate change
22:05on the environment.
22:07And it's not just about climate change.
22:09It's also about the impact of climate change
22:11on the environment as a whole.
22:14In many ways, cities magnify, intensify climate events.
22:19Cities are hotter than the places around them.
22:38Dramatic changes.
22:39These are the same kinds of pools that formed here
22:43on this ice shelf in Antarctica.
23:10It just feels like we're just getting kicked around all the time, right?
23:13And that's where I would say there is tremendous things to be done.
23:18What happens in a mass surveillance regime,
23:20you sweep up essentially everybody.
23:22Everybody, by definition, becomes a target,
23:26which means there's no target.
23:40While funding to the Five Eyes Alliance
23:42has dramatically increased since the beginning of the 21st century,
23:46the agencies continue to remain largely autonomous
23:49from the governments who fund them.
24:10The Prime Minister is extremely concerned about this.
24:13And they kept saying that this is from the very top.
24:40Now, let's get to the end.
24:53It's amazing how fast artificial intelligence
24:56has entered popular culture.
24:58Of course, for a long time it has been the subject of fiction and philosophy,
25:02but most of the time it was relegated to the field of science fiction.
25:06Although since the boom of chatGPT,
25:09people are realizing that it is no longer so fictitious.
25:22You can already write articles,
25:24do advanced mathematical calculations, and draw.
25:26What could it be in five or ten years?
25:29What impact will it have on global infrastructure?
25:32And even more importantly,
25:34when will it become Terminator and become aware of itself?
25:37These are the questions that currently terrify a large part of the world.
25:41And unfortunately, there are no easy answers.
25:52Do you think we live in a dystopian world?
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