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Reinvent every industry for surveillance

mercredi 29 janvier 2020 à 01:00

Warning! What if they do "reinvent every industry" in the next 10 years?

Change qua change is not necessarily bad. But if this "reinvention" is done under a plutocratic regime, the plutocrats will make this an opportunity to give business more power to get away with mistreating customers, and more "flexibility" to tie workers' lives in knots.

The specific change that Diamandis yearns for would create a surveillance dystopia. People will say it is "impossible" to live without participating in those dis-services, but the first condition of participation will be "consenting" to be tracked. Further conditions will control many aspects of people's lives -- for instance, requiring them to buy from particular allied companies, use certain products, not use certain other products, do exercise on command, or allow video and audio recording inside their homes.