Yeah, an oracle for the masses is something very convenient.

Just remind me, who had the power - Alexander or his fortunetellers? Caesar or his fortunetellers? Or whether Delphi oracle ever managed to turn the religious part into power?

BTW - I understand how such ideas can be out of sincere desire to help humanity. Magic thinking is natural, and some perception of the world is natural, and evolution is just not fast enough for the technical developments we have.

And what I’d want in the future to account for that (sort of a panopticon, not because I’m an exhibitionist, but because you can’t make a subset of society always tracked and visible without making everyone always tracked and visible ; and lack of banking privacy, for example, in Scandinavian countries doesn’t seem to hurt them that much) might well be worse than what they want. A bit like Zamyatin’s book.

It’s just that “might” doesn’t negate the fact that they are already doing a few very bad things, like genocide. Perhaps their mitigation is just not worth such sacrifices. Perhaps mine is.