Neither Kafka, Joseph Heller, nor Huxley could conceive of technology-enabled ubiquitous, concealed brutality and extortion. The Western world is rapidly flirti

Neither Kafka, Joseph Heller, nor Huxley could conceive of technology-enabled ubiquitous, concealed brutality and extortion. The Western world is rapidly flirting with the specters of pre-crime and automated enforcement that puts the burden on the accused to prove their innocence with Hobson choices while extorting fees from average citizens as a profit-center. And in Western countries with weak privacy laws, this class of technology also raises the specter of private "social credit" behavioral tracking to discriminates against and quantize people by grading their online and offline behaviors in totally opaque manners.