I have comforted myself about the fact that I’m under constant surveillance by thinking that there’s no WAY they can pay attention to everybody… so I just have to seem to act normal and I’m invisible. (Which, by the way, includes making posts here). So finding out that the surveillance tools are also broken? That’s not scary, that’s GREAT!
I do realize that “attention” can be automated, and that will be happening over the next few years. I used to think that was sort of ok, because humans have learned to be social over centuries of living in one-room houses in small communities where there basically WAS no privacy. But in those days, the people around you were no more powerful than you. NOW, the ones who know everything also own a significant fraction of everything and everybody. THAT’s different…
I have comforted myself about the fact that I’m under constant surveillance by thinking that there’s no WAY they can pay attention to everybody… so I just have to seem to act normal and I’m invisible. (Which, by the way, includes making posts here). So finding out that the surveillance tools are also broken? That’s not scary, that’s GREAT!
I do realize that “attention” can be automated, and that will be happening over the next few years. I used to think that was sort of ok, because humans have learned to be social over centuries of living in one-room houses in small communities where there basically WAS no privacy. But in those days, the people around you were no more powerful than you. NOW, the ones who know everything also own a significant fraction of everything and everybody. THAT’s different…