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Tell someone from 1950 about modern cell phones, tracking in them and online, tracking in car ECUs, tracking all purchases, with companies listening in on every
by b112 4y ago
Tell someone from 1950 about modern cell phones, tracking in them and online, tracking in car ECUs, tracking all purchases, with companies listening in on everything said at home, and that's their dystopian novel!
- Bakary 4y agoIt's also a dystopia according to our current sensibilities. Or at least for a plurality of people. Even the people who don't seem to care tend to react adversely once they understand how it can affect them.
- mannykannot 4y agoWe have seen your scenario, and we have also had, in the last three years, a taste of brigandish's scenario, so I feel people can make up their own minds about whether they are usefully comparable. And if you do think they are comparable, note that the equivalent of a "build-your-own vaccine kit" in your scenario has not materially improved the situation (right now, "Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours" is at position 8 on the HN front page.)