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One of the reasons I loathe the Idea of WEF for the future that came recently to big spotlight (old WEF propaganda link: https://www.forbes.com/sites/worldecono
by nbzso 6y ago
One of the reasons I loathe the Idea of WEF for the future that came recently to big spotlight (old WEF propaganda link: https://www.forbes.com/sites/worldeconomicforum/2016/11/10/shopping-i-cant-really-remember-what-that-is-or-how-differently-well-live-in-2030/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/worldeconomicforum/2016/11/10/s...) is the assumption that privacy and control are concepts of the past. This is the same case, companies driven by greed joined Facebook platform only fo find out how dependent they are afterwords, I predict different future, future in which lower cost of hardware and traffic will give option for full control of dev ops and stack without Google and Amazon. You can full small businesses to some extent, but in the era of data driven business ownership and full control are priceless. Trusting some big cloud corp with army of lawyers and complex agreement is questionable.
- bassman9000 6y agoI raised similar concerns in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25641205 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25641205 regarding privacy in Google, to be downvoted almost immediately. There's people that truly don't care about privacy and control, and see comments like this as a nuisance, because they can't see how this massive amount of information could be used against them. WEF itself has been selling the you won't own a thing, and you'll be happy mantra for a while, and there's more and more people buying it. It would be palatable if the ones promoting it didn't have so much privacy and control themselves.
- nbzso 6y agoI have problem with Idea of lack of ownership. I have lived in communist regime in which secret services terrorised population with phone tapping, public shaming, making agents from your relatives, breaking families, turning careers to dust, while political elites lived in luxury and corruption was a leaders sport. The proposed model for the future is obviously abstraction with same patterns in hand. People will buy it to some extent I guess but the idea of ownership is hardwired to our psychology naturally, ownership is connected to privacy in direct way, I cannot see how Bezos, Gates, Musk will comply with this. What will they do? Will give away all the money they have and live free of ownership? GTFO.:)