I think inertia is leading us toward a quantified state, in which the costs of tracking and categorizing objects — primarily people, phones, cars, and money — as they move from place to place becomes so low that most institutions are doing it by reflex, without either considering or caring for consequences. Eventually, somebody is going to exploit the gap in information (between what is available to ordinary people, and what is available to organizations) in a way that causes enormous, historic harm, as happened in WWII when a particular state realized that IBM had compiled a database that was perfect for populating a list of names of those who would soon be marched off to camps. And that was just census data. Now they know what you read, where you go, who you're with, and how you'll vote.
The unfortunate reality of contemporary political thought is that consequences do not exist until they are felt. Rare is the chicken that fears the farmer. That means we've got two options: we either wait for the pain, or we stop waiting for political consensus.
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Don’t you think that the exploitation of the gap in information is already happening?
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Journalists and whistleblowers are too eager to self censor when it comes to exposing names and actions taken by the people who are members of organizations. Organizations are immune to accountability and punishment. People are not. It is changing though, when Russel Brand was cancelled, some journalists were quick to publish Dame Caroline Dinenage's name, her husband's political connections, and letter she wrote. As a news consumer, I can't do much, but I can at least seek out and click more on journalists who write about people instead of vague institutions.
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So do you wait for the pain in rusia, or do you stop waiting for political consensus in rusia?
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They're not just knowing they're back to physically stalking me and the only thing cops are afraid of is harley davidson.
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It seems we’re built to go through that pain to rethink solutions for the next time. No pain, no solution.
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Didn't someone just hack India's biometric database and auction it off for $80,000?
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