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I find there is a curious rift between IT people and the obvious ultimate conclusion (everything being automated, including surveillance) that we seem to strugg
by jstummbillig 2y ago
I find there is a curious rift between IT people and the obvious ultimate conclusion (everything being automated, including surveillance) that we seem to struggle with, in what feels like an almost adolescent tantrum way.
What do we expect to happen, eventually? It seems obvious that all things that would otherwise be monitored manually and less efficiently will be monitored automatically. Is that not the promise of IT?
We seem to have trust issues around our institutions, and, fair enough. But is the only way here not obviously to make sure our institutions work, because tech will do whatever it possibly can anyway, at someone's hand, eventually? We seem to marginally resist the future but I don't see to what reasonable end.
- 11101010001100 2y agoIT people already live in a dystopia where they are actively playing and creating a video game at the same time under the belief that they can defeat their own creation.
- stvltvs 2y agoI don't share the idea that seems pervasive in tech circles that technological development and use is inevitable. There are many, many cases where we have the technology to do a thing but have decided to forbid our institutions from using it, to varying levels of success. Chemical warfare springs to mind: relatively simple to use but we've collectively decided we shouldn't (except tear gassing demonstrators?).