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> Will mankind become a hive mind in inescapable police states?

 
post Jan 17 2019, 03:19
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The internet of shits is here, with microphones and cameras are getting to be in everything including cars, living rooms, and refrigerators,
and since cellphone screens are foldable now and body cameras are getting popular, soon companies will find a way to sell you on adding machines to much of your wearable clothing too.

Meanwhile, the internet itself is evolving so that you need a social media account for everything, and in India the government even uses biometrics as a government personal ID now. Your personal information and stupid old posts on social media never get deleted anymore either, and can later come back to haunt 13 year olds. It just appears to be deleted, but it's usually privately archived somewhere, like at the new
This inhibits experimentation and there's a chilling effect on the young, who can face bigger consequences for political activity.

Orwell thought governments would build the infrastructure for the police state of 1984, while Huxley thought individuals would build dystopia themselves out from the bottom up, out of a love of distractions and entertainment. The future looks like a combination of the two: its consumers who are buying the surveillance apparatuses with the chains and shackles of the future, for the entertainment,l or convenience,and it's all subsidized by selling your personal information to growing international conglomerates that have been unregulated, (and which sometimes act like they're be above the law.)

We're becoming a hive mind, a single organism of interconnected data. That wouldn't be so bad except we still haven't managed to create stable and responsible governments. I think technology could create an inescapable police state that would spread from country to country like a virus. So there may be a looming time limit that challenges us, and we have to somehow vaccinate ourselves from both tyranny and collectivism, before we doom our species to a permanent dystopia.
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post Jan 17 2019, 04:00
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I think you've watched too much Star Trek, with the hive mind stuff. Plus, the sensationalist language is a dead giveaway to how big of a deal that you're making over something that'll eventually happen. But I think that's its kind of early to be freaking out over technology...Or kind of late, if you're going by China's and the NYPD's surveillance cameras.

2.9/10: Will not forward this as an sci-fi script.
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post Feb 12 2019, 01:09
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until the bodysnatchers or other similar space parasites takes over, humans will never think alike. there will always be people opposed to the masses.

its the people opposed to slavery that ended it (in the us) when everyone else was in favor of it.

its the people who opposed the rule of a foreign power that inspired independence movements (not always works)

etc etc.
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post Feb 12 2019, 17:23
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QUOTE(sensualaoi @ Jan 17 2019, 12:19) *

before we doom our species to a permanent dystopia.

I hate to tell you this but that's already happened.
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