I seriously believe that this "governed by software" is the grim future for 90% of the overcrowded planet in the future: all activity will be uploaded to a "cen

I seriously believe that this "governed by software" is the grim future for 90% of the overcrowded planet in the future: all activity will be uploaded to a "central governing unit" that will send down punishments for misbehaving peons. And algorithms will be trivial: management will be identifying undesired activities on an adhoc basis, invent a metric that somewhat accurately detects this activity (or train an ML model that separates bad apples from good apples) and associate this metric with a negative score. Inputs to the metric function will be all the invidual activity data. The entire system will be millions of opaque metrics that override each other and no one will dare to overhaul the system for it would cause unpredictable effects in society. There will be human judges who will occasionally override the algorithm. All this will be the reaction to the increasing difficulty to keep peons in check. And thanks to the complete and ubiquitous surveillance and reliable internet even in Himalayas, there won't be many places to hide.