Me: “DUUUUUHHHHHH!!!”
Seriously. How many centuries has this been basic fucking common sense???!!!
About 2.
Not only governance suffers.
Entertain me for a moment. Imagine a utopia in which you don’t need to distrust technology or guard yourself against the companies that control it. No data harvesting or sharing; your privacy, likes and preferences safe and your own. No schemes to come up with algorithms that enrage you and dominate your attention. Imagine that you could trust LLMs to be trained with only the best, curated sources and where their operation is completely open and transparent. Imagine how we would express ourselves through our tech and through social media. Technology would become deeply, deeply personal, benign, helpful and at the service of humankind… as it should be.
The idea is so crazy that it is borderline unthinkable, right?
We’re just living in 1984.
I’m going wait for the follow up: showing how CEOs don’t prioritize human welfare over profits
That’s unironically a very interesting topic. There was actually a landmark court case which insisted that a CEO must prioritize profits over human welfare.
That very page says it’s not a must.
Where’s that Shockface emoji when I need it?!
Shock face? You mean like when you get tazered by the police? As you do, in the modern day…
What’s the point of this book? It’s nothing new, and would never change anything about the situation.
This situation has come to be, through the ignorance and inaction of ordinary people. Your attitude is part of the problem.
