3 ms·
It's an early ERP system that existed under a different model of economic organization; omitting that serious detail is almost, er, underselling it. Modern Fre
by revolvingocelot 4y ago
It's an early ERP system that existed under a different model of economic organization; omitting that serious detail is almost, er, underselling it.
Modern Free SocietiesTM lose their minds over networked water meters; this was a near-real-time index of important metrics from the country's important industries. The actually-Marxist government used this data to wage class war against the still-private owners of eg trucking companies. We don't hold with that sort of panopticon in the West, no sir!
...Regarding corporations, obviously. Citizens dutifully endure their smartphones and smartspeakers and smartdoorbells reporting important metrics to advertisers and Amazon and the cops. The point is that ideology colours everything.
- AstralStorm 4y agoWhat is a required by law or your power corporation smart power meter? :) Are you sure we don't do that? (Water meters more often than not as well.) What are the chances your gas station does not record the plates and gas purchase data together? Or the credit card number. Or perhaps even driver's license number in some places. Etc. Ad nauseam. The data is just not directly available to either the consumer or the government. That does not make for good privacy though.