The technical dystopia was realized decades ago, on August 6, 1945[1]. A way out of the problem was proposed a month earlier than that, in July 1945 issue of "T

The technical dystopia was realized decades ago, on August 6, 1945[1]. A way out of the problem was proposed a month earlier than that, in July 1945 issue of "The Atlantic" by Vannevar Bush[2]. The editor's introduction is most appropriate "As Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, Dr. Vannevar Bush has coordinated the activities of some six thousand leading American scientists in the application of science to warfare. In this significant article he holds up an incentive for scientists when the fighting has ceased. He urges that men of science should then turn to the massive task of making more accessible our bewildering store of knowledge. For years inventions have extended man's physical powers rather than the powers of his mind. Trip hammers that multiply the fists, microscopes that sharpen the eye, and engines of destruction and detection are new results, but not the end results, of modern science. Now, says Dr. Bush, instruments are at hand which, if properly developed, will give man access to and command over the inherited knowledge of the ages. The perfection of these pacific instruments should be the first objective of our scientists as they emerge from their war work. Like Emerson's famous address of 1837 on "The American Scholar," this paper by Dr. Bush calls for a new relationship between thinking man and the sum of our knowledge. — THE EDITOR" The way out is to gather information (and thus control) locally, in an archive that you can manipulate and share with others. Local control of information, lets you decide who authors your thoughts, and what authority you thus give away. Don't let someone's algorithm decide what you read or watch. Keep that control close at hand, and you'll make locally optimum decisions, instead of giving away all of your authority to the AI employed by the wealthy. 1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki 2 - https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/