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Do you have any recommended reading on this topic?
by mostlysimilar 6y ago
Do you have any recommended reading on this topic?
- bleepblorp 6y agoI'm speaking from remembering things I read over the past few decades on Usenet (yes, that far back) and on blogs. I'd be amazed if any of this is still online.
- bleepblorp 6y agoGoing back even further than that, however, James Burke's Connections warned of the risks of weaponized data mining in 1978, decades before Facebook commercialized the use of data mining to sell behavior modification as a service. Dystopian futures aren't hard to predict. The hard part is getting enough people to listen to the predictions to prevent them from coming to fruition.