The tools now exist to review every action and communication made by every citizen of every country without human intervention, and to sort those actions based on specific parameters set by a single person. Who will be the first one to set these parameters, and what will they be?
The news the other day about being able to be tracked inside my own home through the signals of my WiFi router was a bit shocking. I mean, I knew that sort of thing was possible having worked for a wireless internet service provider, but never thought about it applied to surveillance.
maxwells_daemon@lemmy.world 1 week ago
V for Vendetta missed the time frame by maybe a decade, not much more than that.
DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
1984 missed that our telescreens would be portable and the hate isn’t limited to two minutes per day.
lordnikon@lemmy.world 1 week ago
That and missed the capitalist angle of making lots of money from the hate.