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gregg r (grheavyroller@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 16:59:24 JST gregg r
- Cory Doctorow
This passage from @pluralistic 's novel "Attack Surface" sums up how the technology we depend on has been turned against us:
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1. "The reality is, there was a kind of blip when a minority of working stiffs, white dudes mostly, held a little more political power; that lasted for less than a century. Now, humanity was returning to it's baseline: all or nothing, with a tiny super-rich minority able to control everyone and everything. The smarter your device, the harder it would be for you to outsmart it. Technology didn't create the brief democratic blip and it didn't kill it, but now that it's dead, technology will sure as shit make sure that it never comes back. Those days are gone. Our modern oligarchs don't even have to put you in jail to render you impotent. They can just turn your phone, car, TV, and thermostat into virtual ankle cuffs that tell them everything you say and everywhere you go, and rat out all of your friends."
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