Ric-Ralston sure knows his tech. https://mic-lock.com/blogs/news
https://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2026-05-23-show/
While there are various do-it-yourself webcam-covers consisting of cloth, paper and especially black tape, there is also a specifically engineered web-cam-cover.
https://mic-lock.com/products/web-cam-cover-black
https://mic-lock.com/blogs/news/erasing-your-digital-footprint-a-9-step-guide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_and_communications_technology
Of course there have been several movies based on this theme.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conversation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conversation#Enemy_of_the_State
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_of_the_State_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Days_of_the_Condor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakers_(1992_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourne_(franchise)#Films
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Eye#Plot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowden_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacron-3 There has been a long running idea about gathering as much big-data and metadata as possible to put into something like an Earth_Simulator. https://www.jamstec.go.jp/es/en/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Simulator#Earth_Simulator_(third_generation)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_on_a_Wire , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thirteenth_Floor
"Zuse’s thesis is the idea that the Universe could be running within a digital computer. It was formulated by Konrad Zuse in Rechnender Raum (Calculating Space) in 1969. The computer could be a very large Cellular automaton according to Zuse." https://hugocisneros.com/notes/zuse_s_thesis
In Source_Code, the protagonist ends up on an alternate Earth with a chance to continue his life, but in a deferent body.
https://film-vault.fandom.com/wiki/Source_Code , rogerebert.com/reviews/source-code-2011
https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1czidhe/understanding_the_intricately_complex_ending_of/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_physics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculating_Space , https://philpapers.org/archive/ZUSRR.pdf
https://www.americanscientist.org/article/the-computational-universe
https://greggbraden.com/living-in-a-virtual-simulation/
https://www.eomega.org/article/mystic-edgar-cayce-explains-the-akashic-records
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abrahamic_religions , https://history.wisc.edu/publications/the-abrahamic-religions-a-very-short-introduction/
https://futureofbeinghuman.asu.edu/2024/11/26/simulation-hypothesis-with-rizwan-virk/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akashic_records (AkR) https://www.britannica.com/topic/Akashic-record How much would be preset or pre-recorded?
https://www.reddit.com/r/SimulationTheory/comments/1jmyf14/i_got_this_book_the_simulated_multiverse_by Rizwan Virk Sure, one can get AI to summarize a book for you, especially if are in a rush.
https://medium.com/heart-speak/the-akashic-records-more-than-past-lives-9f804842376a An ancient concept of being in some kind of an interactive recording and projection of time & space for consciousness to experience different lives. Of course with full emersion VR, people can pretend to experience various lives.
https://www.gaia.com/article/akashic-records-101-can-we-access-our-akashic-records
Is the universe like someone's holographic planetarium? Is the universe just one of many in a cosmic database?
https://edgarcayce.org/edgar-cayce/readings/akashic-records/
