FIGURING OUT THE NEW ERA: DYSTOPIA 2024 is for anyone who wants to understand how this era has become a dystopian time. It isn't a political commentary, but instead it delves into the societal underpinnings during some of the bleakest times for national sentiment and way of life. The book incorporates the ideas of today's bestsellers: Human Compatible: AI And The Problem Of Control, Covid19: The Great Reset, Doppelgänger: A Trip Into The Mirror World, and Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies. It offers an easy-to-read practical presentation of dystopian life, collective control, manipulated realities, and the perils they threaten with real accounts from across the globe. By highlighting the severity of societal actions, the book serves as a somber reminder that the current state of affairs has ushered us into this dystopian era with worse times ahead, as it looks at how times have changed and how norms have changed with them, and in cases effectively killing some amongst us. The causes of the problems seen in today's dystopia are revealed and secrets are leaked that have had a devastating effect through the changes affecting peoples' lives. Jensen Bale goes beyond what is read in the news and discloses mind-blowing science and its research while delivering real accounts from various countries that plague people in these times, sharing the warning of experts about how the severity of this era threatens Western civilization. The book includes over 55 cited sources of little-known scientific research, hidden facts, and revealing statistics-and over 100 additional cited sources. See how the mystery of Facebook knowing users' spoken words, that USA Today and CBS This Morning have questioned, is unraveled to explain how peoples' words and thoughts can be known without using electronic device microphones. Find out why people are choosing to not work and stay away from blue-collar workplaces that pose risks and dangers that aren't spoken of and even kept from the public. Read how speculation that people are controlled by a form of collective intelligence is difficult to refute. Learn about widespread mental health issues that experts say got worse in the decade even before the Covid-19 pandemic. Discover what experts mean when they warn about changes in our societies that threaten the downfall of Western civilization.