Relevant: https://idlewords.com/talks/haunted_by_data.htm https://idlewords.com/talks/haunted_by_data.htm (Maybe you were familiar). The closing is particularl

Relevant: https://idlewords.com/talks/haunted_by_data.htm https://idlewords.com/talks/haunted_by_data.htm (Maybe you were familiar). The closing is particularly worth taking in: > Finally, don't be surprised. The current model of total surveillance and permanent storage is not tenable. > If we keep it up, we'll have our own version of Three Mile Island, some widely-publicized failure that galvanizes popular opinion against the technology. > At that point people who are angry, mistrustful, and may not understand a thing about computers will regulate your industry into the ground. You'll be left like those poor saps who work in the nuclear plants, who have to fill out a form in triplicate anytime they want to sharpen a pencil. > You don't want that. Even I don't want that. > We can have that radiant future but it will require self-control, circumspection, and much more concern for safety that we've been willing to show. > It's time for us all to take a deep breath and pull off those radium underpants. I'm not sure it came in the form of a single event (though I can think of some candidates -- the cambridge analytica scandal made a big impression for one), but it's clear to me at this point that the warning was ignored, and our industry has missed the window for self-regulation.