The old system is finished! – This is what's next!

While grand pronouncements about innovation, progress, and future viability echo through talk shows, the responsible decision-makers are still sitting in front of Excel spreadsheets, celebrating when a formula works on the first try. Politics and administration, the very places where rules for a digitized world are supposed to be created, possess about as much technical understanding as a fax machine with burnout.

Artificial intelligence? "I tried it once, entered my name, and it came out as nonsense." Case closed. File over. Future disproven. The fact that these technologies are developing exponentially is of no interest. They're judging a rocket while they're still fiddling with a lighter.

In parallel, the stage is being set. Digital identities, human verification, permanent access controls. Not out of malice, of course, but for efficiency, security, and, naturally, responsibility. All very reasonable-sounding terms, perfectly suited to selling the erosion of freedom like a software update. Access is granted only with consent. Those who don't consent are out. We've seen this before. Back then, it was called a temporary measure.

Meanwhile, the labor market is providing the appropriate soundtrack for the collapse. In the US, over a million people were laid off in 2025. A record high. Germany is following suit, albeit belatedly, but reliably. Not because robots have suddenly become better at everything, but because a system is collapsing that has cut off its own energy supply. Expensive electricity, ideological economic policies, absurd competitive disadvantages. Those who produce like this simply cease to produce.

And while factories close, gold and silver prices rise. Not because precious metals have magically become more valuable, but because money is devalued. A historically reliable sign. Whenever currencies die, metals suddenly shine. You can ignore it. Or you can read history.

What's being built instead is a comprehensive digital system. Satellites cover every square meter of the Earth. Network availability everywhere, at all times. Not out of romantic notions, but because autonomous systems simply don't function without a permanent connection. Self-driving cars, drones, robotics—all of this requires control, coordination, and enforcement. Freedom is more of a side effect.

Things get particularly interesting when it comes to liability. Because this is where the real power center of the future lies. Robots know no guilt. They feel nothing, understand no morality, and act based on probabilities. If a humanoid robot injures someone, it is not liable. So someone else is liable: the manufacturer or the user. And this is precisely where it will be decided who dominates the market. Small providers cannot afford the risk. What remains are a few corporations with deep pockets. Competition takes care of itself.

The solution is obvious: consent. Those who consent are liable. Those who don't consent are left out. The principle is well-known. It's called delegating responsibility. In reality, it's outsourcing power. Freedom becomes a license that can be revoked at any time.

Politics could regulate. Theoretically. In practice, it fails even at understanding the problem. Legislation is linear, technology exponential. This is called "liability lag." While parliaments debate, the next generation of software has already taken over the market. Lawyers work with Word and Excel while trying to regulate systems that evolve on their own. The result is predictable: nothing.

So only one way out remains: control by technology itself. Ironically. An open, transparent, verifiable AI that monitors government action, instead of the other way around. An idea immediately dismissed as utopian because it would shift power. And as we all know, power is only relinquished under duress. Or after a war.

Historically, wars have always been systems that divide society: empires, currencies, social orders. In between, bloodshed, fear, a state of emergency. Afterwards, a new order. Anyone who believes things will be different this time either has a very short memory or a very long-standing belief. Fear makes people compliant. This is something we've learned. And we'll use it again.

Digital IDs are not being introduced because people want them, but because they appear to be the solution in a state of emergency. Security versus chaos. Order versus fear. Control versus freedom. A fair deal, if you're panicking enough.

Of course there is resistance. Movements that demonize technology across the board, portray tech entrepreneurs as enemies, and declare anyone who talks about AI a traitor. Understandable, but ineffective. The technology isn't disappearing. At most, it's being handed over to others.

The real question isn't whether the new system will come. It will. The question is whether analog freedom will remain a fundamental right or become a nostalgic memory. Whether one can opt out without being punished. Whether consent will remain voluntary or become a ticket to life.

Until then, enjoy what is still analog. Go for walks. Think without updates. Be human without verification. Because the system is being prepared. People won't want it. But that has never been enough to stop anything.

The demolition is underway. And as always, the scaffolding is already up before anyone even asked if they wanted to renovate…

Tom Lausen reveals: "The old system is OVER!" - This is coming NOW! (AI, robots & liability)