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I was reading a while ago about how many nukes we set off in the 50s and 60s and thought: what are we doing today that future generations will think "what were

• gipp 8y ago
  For better or worse, I expect the opposite will happen. Future generations simply will not have the same expectations and fears around privacy. The modern Western conceptions of privacy are relatively anomalous from a historical perspective. There's nothing to stop them from changing again.
  • api 8y ago
    What's happening now is totally different from the lack of privacy experienced in a tribe or a close knit village. This is top down panopticon surveillance where an opaque eye spies on everyone on behalf of a complex of corporations, advertisers, criminals, and governments. The lack of privacy in a village was reciprocal. This is completely asymmetrical and exploitative.
• novia 8y ago
  You might find this video interesting: https://youtu.be/LLCF7vPanrY https://youtu.be/LLCF7vPanrY Shows every nuke set off between 1945 to 1998.
• julienreszka 8y ago
  Why did you add capitalism to surveillance?
  • api 8y ago
    I was using it as a technical term more than a political one. Capital is a rough synonym for assets, but "surveillance asset accumulation" is clunky. The capital being amassed here is information about people. That capital can be leveraged to control and manipulate for both economic and political reasons and can be used by both (politically) capitalist and less capitalist authoritarian regimes.