Leo
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in New York City...where only the city's elite can afford spacious apartments, clean water and natural food, and even then at horrendously high prices.
that's kinda been true for the past 10 years!
in New York City...where only the city's elite can afford spacious apartments, clean water and natural food, and even then at horrendously high prices.
Surveillance and tracking systems currently used to control workers and prisoners under house arrest universalised.
for the record, I think this is by far the most likely future, compounded by, as you say, catastrophic climate changeone possibility is an automated/AI driven dystopia where a minimal universal basic income replaces jobs and allows a docile underclass to fight over getting one of a tiny number of jobs servicing the billionaire elite
Is there a hoarding element to some state surveillance ? A senseless greed with no utility. Governments know more about us now than they could ever use. But still this urge to know more.
I don't doubt a company like Google's ability to make use of every scrap of data it has on me. but I do doubt a governments. This isn't to say that government surveillance isn't nefarious disturbing and authoritarian. But rather just to wonder if there's something else going on than just an authoritarian impulse. A need to possess and own, even if you're never gonna look at it.
We are the massive "to read sometime" pile of books by the governments bedside table.
This thread is due for an update.
It is eerie but the big question for me is how much of this will be withdrawn when the pandemic ends. Because it won’t all be.
The legislation will be time-limited – for 2 years – and not all of these measures will come into force immediately. The bill allows the 4 UK governments to switch on these new powers when they are needed, and, crucially, to switch them off again once they are no longer necessary, based on the advice of Chief Medical Officers of the 4 nations.
Lots of stuff on twitter about cops merrily abusing their new powers.
Lots of stuff on twitter about cops merrily abusing their new powers.