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I'm not ok with the article. The analogy of taking balls from an urn put the focus on the technology and not in the people that may or not use it. Those omited
by gmuslera 6y ago
I'm not ok with the article. The analogy of taking balls from an urn put the focus on the technology and not in the people that may or not use it. Those omited but important players is what makes the difference for some existing technologies to be black or not.
And the solution, for technologies that may be used by a wide amount of players, is to rely on surveillance and again, giving even more power those top/ruling players on top.
We already got a dark gray ball out of the urn, when the atomic bomb was tested at first some scientists on the project weren't sure if that wouldn't start a chain reaction on the atmosphere killing all life. And still, the people in power went ahead and used that technology.
Another example is more recent, with global warming, the people in power are ignoring the long term risks and taking measures making the problem worse and more urgent.
So, is not just taking the ball. Some of them could be already black (nuclear power, genetic manipulation, things that cause global warming, etc). Is to have the power and the will to use them. And with that in mind, last US presidency showed us how vulnerable is the world.