Mark Jacobs - Community Notepad |
βWhen we interact with people on the street, thereβs a certain level of respect accorded to strangers,β Bedoya told me. βThatβs partly because we donβt know if people are powerful or influential or we could get in trouble for treating them poorly. I donβt know what happens in a world where you see someone in the street and immediately know where they work, where they went to school, if they have a criminal record, what their credit score is. I donβt know how society changes, but I donβt think it changes for the better.βCouple the widespread adoption of doorbell cameras with face recognition technology demonstrated by companies like Clearview, and we've arrived at an Orwellian society, where, if you have to go on the run from the authorities for whatever reason, and you pass one of these devices in the street, you can be traced and arrested fairly quickly! Remember, the authorities are not always right.
If there was a genuine eugenicist effort underway to improve the stock of the species by βcullingβ the gullible, naΓ―ve, passive, willingly ignorant and overly trusting βuseless eatersβ, who refuse to question whatβs served to them by the powers-that-shouldnβt-be and to take responsibility for their own health and wellbeing, would that really be such a bad thing?
So, all I have to do is chloroform you, dig out the chip, and your life and money are all mine. Makes identity fraud really easy.
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