> Someday large segments of the population are going to > gladly submit some control of their mind to 3rd parties > who know which programs and products are

> Someday large segments of the population are going to > gladly submit some control of their mind to 3rd parties > who know which programs and products are good for you, and > which you are unauthorized to use. This is already in place and has nothing to do with technology. Just observe carefully all the stuff people get offended about, or call racist, or call sexist—usually there is little to no thinking involved, just conditioned response, sometimes reaching absurdity (like insisting that black person from UK should be called african-american). My impression is that in these cases people don't really have moral compass or deep understanding why something is right and something is wrong—this all was "outsourced" somewhere and all left are just learned reponses to stimuli, with extremely crude pattern recognition. And yes, to some degree this applies to those inceasingly speaking about walled-gardens.