The government is now using Palantir not just to monitor you, but to predetermine your fate even before you take your first step. A couple of years ago, I was chatting with some friends about people who tailor their personalities to meet others’ expectations. And then, during the conversation, one of us opened YouTube on his smartphone and — guess what — several videos relevant to our conversation immediately popped up. The very first one was titled Why You Feel You Have No Personality? , as if YouTube somehow knew in advance what to show. We were all a bit stunned at the time. What was that? A coincidence? But why several relevant videos at once, rather than just one among random ones? Did the smartphone read our minds? Nonsense — smartphones can’t “read minds.” Nevertheless, something similar happened. Why? Because your smartphone may be part of a global network, where information is now consolidated into one massive dataset.…