Even the most comfortable prison is still a prison - Captain Picard, TNG
Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better
Submitted 2 days ago by karpfenkalender@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world
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tabular@lemmy.world 2 days ago
paradox2011@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
“Once in awhile I get annoyed about the fact that I have no real privacy. No where I can go and not be registered. I know that, somewhere, everything I do, think and dream of is recorded. I just hope that nobody will use it against me.”
The consensus seems to be that this is a propaganda piece, or at least heavily opinionated by the writer, but I just don’t understand how they could write this with a positive frame of mind. The article is a strange mixture of perspectives that don’t seem consistent. Bizarre.
SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 2 days ago
In modern context, with Musk censoring and banning everyone and everything he doesn’t like, having a backdoor into a country’s financial system and probably also deportation, that statement is ominous as hell.
paradox2011@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Seriously. It seems like the subconscious anxieties and fears of the writer’s mind come through in statements like this and a few others. Whatever positives (real and imagined) there are about the situation, there is an underlying loss of personal autonomy that causes a sense unease. The thing that’s continuing to intrigue me now is: did the writer intend for that to come through, showing the losses a society of that nature would sustain as a commentary on those that promote it, or are they intentionally trying to downplay the loss of personal autonomy as if it’s not actually a large part of human happiness? Idk, weird article.
vsis@feddit.cl 2 days ago
Sometimes I use my bike when I go to see some of my friends.
A bit obsolete this thing about “owning” a bike. Bikes subscription are way more convenient!
Also it’s harder to track you when you are using this old-fashioned “dumb” bikes.
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days ago
About a quarter of one’s salary had to be earmarked for voluntary subscriptions, which were so numerous that it was difficult to keep track of them.
(From 1984 by George Orwell)
But just a quarter seems too optimistic though.
bizzle@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I thought you were making that up because it was too relevant, so I grabbed my copy and there it is 🙃 one of these days you will be vaporized. You see too clearly.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
This is just a repost by the same WEF that made this gold nugget. They even kept the year, so uncreative.
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Notice it’s “you” will own nothing, not “we”. 😳
Carmakazi@lemmy.world 2 days ago
They even kept the year, so uncreative
They just feel confident in their progress timeline, given recent events.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 days ago
My living room is used for business meetings when I am not there.
Ignoring the fact that living rooms and conference rooms are different rooms for a reason, how is this at all desirable?
My biggest concern is all the people who do not live in our city
Don’t worry I’ll be fine because I don’t have to rent out my living room and can see the stars.
This article feels like someone trying to make New Urbanists look bad.
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 2 days ago
Heheh. Sure. If I'm not at home, my sex-toys are up another stranger's bum. It made no sense for us to own anything anymore. My brain implant keeps me indifferent and drugged. And consuming the services...
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Then a bit of soma and some orgy-porgy
timroerstroem@feddit.dk 2 days ago
Published in World Economic Forum · 5 min read · Nov 12, 2016
JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That is some next level copium, No way will AI or robots give us more free time. It will be used to give us the boot so they dont need to pay us wages and benefits.
It could facilitate a massive change in society but that is not profitable in the short term so it won’t be considered. More money for the insatiable greed of the ruling class.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
This is a world economic forum sponsored post. Its not copium its propaganda by the rich owners of rental services that intend to leech of you after you give up all your posessions in favor of rental stuff.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Right.
Wrong. Simpler, so they feel they are better than us.
JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 2 days ago
They already feel they are better, thats why we get laws for thee but not for me.