Also, from yesterday: Google’s Selfish Ledger is an unsettling vision of Silicon Valley social engineering >The video was made in late 2016 by Nick Foster, the

Also, from yesterday: Google’s Selfish Ledger is an unsettling vision of Silicon Valley social engineering >The video was made in late 2016 by Nick Foster, the head of design at X (formerly Google X) and a co-founder of the Near Future Laboratory. The video, shared internally within Google, imagines a future of total data collection, where Google helps nudge users into alignment with their goals, custom-prints personalized devices to collect more data, and even guides the behavior of entire populations to solve global problems like poverty and disease. >When reached for comment on the video, an X spokesperson provided the following statement to The Verge: >“We understand if this is disturbing -- it is designed to be. https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/17/17344250/google-x-selfish-ledger-video-data-privacy https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/17/17344250/google-x-selfish...