Wouldn’t it be convenient to immediately know where your kids are, or whether you left the stove on, or if your heartbeat is irregular? Of course.
So, how do we get all the benefits of those things without allowing the people who scare us to see that same info? I assume the word “blockchain” should be involved, but I honestly don’t even fully know what it means.
But, on a similar level, what terrible or awesome things would happen if the entire internet was hacked by someone and they made every person’s phone/computer/keystroke/bank/location history searchable by name?
Here’s my vision:
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Everyone would find out cringy, embarrassing secrets about the people they love the most. Most of them would be legal, but everyone would be shocked or pissed off at several people.
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Every online child porn perpetrator would be identified and arrested, or killed. Every fraud would be discovered. Every crooked politician, most murderers,
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Lots of people would kill themselves. Mostly people who did nothing “wrong” besides have a weird kink or say mean things about their friends, but also people who committed crimes and knew the jig was up.
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Lots of divorces, breakups, and fist fights, but also, lots of people finding out who likes them and who agrees with them about things.
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Everyone would find that a lot of the “weird” things we do are not that weird after all, and the remaining people would be a lot more open with each other.
Anyway, that’s all. I’m just sitting and thinking.
This is why I resolved to have no secrets whatsoever about anything I do that might become public. There are some things you can seek to protect temporarily but there is no expectation of indefinite protection. My mind of course remains my own and I don't tip my hand. But I can say AMA anytime.
Yikes! The downsides would beat the benefits.
Full surveillance leads to full control.
You can bet that the cabal won't let anyone surveil them.
Out of interest here are a few words
Social credit
Big brother
Panopticon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon concept from 18th century
Smart city
Facial recognition
Where one entity has more information about another, that asymmetry leads to a power gap between them. Resistance to tyranny becomes very difficult.
Disconnect yourself from Google assistant and Alexa and know that your smartphone is stealing your autonomy.
With the abundance of well intentioned genii on their case, how likely is it that their own tools will be turned upon them?
Surveillance can work both ways- that's why they're in their current fix. The watched become the watchers.
With tyranny comes resistance- with resistance comes symmetry again.
With symmetry comes an even ground from which to fight.
History would dictate that good stands well against evil on equal terms.
Isn't that the reason we are here because once the great awakening happens the pep that want do do these things will be gone and then we can enjoy these advances with no fear