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The future is coming, and the tech that can enable authoritarian behavior will come no matter what we do as they're just tools. It's been here and around us in
by zo1 6y ago
The future is coming, and the tech that can enable authoritarian behavior will come no matter what we do as they're just tools. It's been here and around us in ever-increasing forms for decades and yet we haven't necessarily devolved into a big brother state.
What we should be worrying is actual usages of grand scale citizen-control and monitoring projects that are enabled by technology. Think China, not UK or US.
- longtom 6y ago> and yet we haven't necessarily devolved into a big brother state. Well this is damn close. It just needs an executive apparatus which is where drones surely come in handy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance_disclosures_(2013%E2%80%93present) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance_disclosure...
- 8fingerlouie 6y agoAnd yet, a $0.50 facemask will completely destroy the surveillance.
- eunos 6y agoNah, gait based subject recognition might come in the future.
- HPsquared 6y agoMaybe wear high heels?
- anigbrowl 6y agoGait based recognition is way overrated, plus it's a lot harder to sell to a jury.
- jakear 6y agoAlready in use in places like China. And we know the US govt has secret courts to authorize wiretaps. We’re on the brink.
- gsich 6y agoWhy use hypothetical stuff as an argument?
- bonestamp2 6y agoWe have to worry about it in the US and the UK too. I mean, monitoring is already widespread in the US, UK, Canada, etc. Filtering, and therefore control, was almost reality in the UK last year, albeit limited to pornography. But it's a slippery slope in both cases.