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They can keep doing it for ever, because the vast majority of people don't care. HN and the other internet tech rags represent the vocal minority. The dystopia
by themagician 11y ago
They can keep doing it for ever, because the vast majority of people don't care. HN and the other internet tech rags represent the vocal minority.
The dystopian future isn't so future anymore, and things continue to play out much in the way that Huxley thought they would. For the most part, Orwell got it wrong. People will continue to let the government do what they will so long as they are entertained.
- arca_vorago 11y agoEven on HN there are a lot of equivocations and ambivalence about issues like this. If those of us who should know better can barely agree, how does the genpop stand a chance? We are headed to a future where if you don't know how your systems work and control them yourself someone else will.
- fixermark 11y agoPractically speaking, nobody knows how their systems work and controls them top-to-bottom. The inherent complexity of a modern computer outstripped that possibility ages ago. At best, you have a chain of trust you believe in.