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You can't make people forget technologies you don't like selectively. The more we advance in adjacent technologies (like in autonomous driving) the easier it wi
by chr1 9y ago
You can't make people forget technologies you don't like selectively. The more we advance in adjacent technologies (like in autonomous driving) the easier it will become to advance in face recognition, to the point where just a tiny group of people can develop it.
Fighting technology with artificial bans have never worked, and privacy or ethics based arguments won't work now either. The only hope is better technology of controlling the government: better ways to vote, better ways to monitor financial dealings of politicians.
If, people lose their privacy, but government loses it's privacy too, ordinary people will be the ones who benefit the most.
- dalbasal 9y agoWell... the ban on using nuclear weapons has worked so far. The ban (to the extent it exists) on using unwarranted digital data dragnets in civilian policing has at least limited its use some. Not that I disagree with the larger points, it's an uphill fight.
- rtpg 9y agoIt's not about artificial bans. It's about having a social compact so that only the most incompetent/"unethical" end up working in it. Even when the tech is known, if you aren't good at software development then the projects will have difficulty.