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Wednesday, September 23, 2020

The social dilemma (masks off)

Documentary explaining the effect of the modern web services on our way of life.

If you see the movie .. you will know that there is no way out of it ..

Webservices is great help in almost everything .. It helped to advance good and bad . From medicine to terrorism .. From education and knowledge to stupidity and religion. 

We passed the age of agriculture , industry and that of electronic devices .. 

Now we are at the digital age .. (AGE OF INFORMATION).

Not everybody agree that all the changes from an age to another are for the better .. Agriculture caused imperialisms and serious infection diseases .
Industry caused pollution and Hiroshima ..
Electronic devices (TV , Radio) cause society isolations.. etc.. 

Yet nobody was able to stop any of them .. there was no way back from any of those changes.

The digital age is causing new problems and making small problems bigger ..  well .. it is what it is.

Let's admit that there is no way back.. 

Google is not going away .. Facebook , twitter, amazon .. same.. 

There are algorithms following you in your cell phone.. others recording your web searches and behavior. giving the data to other algorithms to compare you to others and put you in categories of personalities similar to you. 

From certain count of your (in private) web interactions and messaging activities, algorithms will know more about you than your life partner does.. 

A machine knows where you go .. a machine knows what you want .. a machine knows what person you are.
A machine know what you did and ashamed of to say openly ..
A machine knows your strength and weaknesses, more than your partner (you can lie and say "but" to gullible person .. not to a machine) .. 

It gets worse even more ..
A machine is able to know how (and what) you think, thus : such a machine can also influence your thoughts .. at least can expose who you really are. not what you pretend to be.
Machine can know (as a result overtake) your personality....... masks off... 

Let that sink in .....................

But how can a machine KNOW ?? can it ? Think of Alan Turing.. 

You might have thought that you were free, and now you are not .. think again.. were you free earlier?
All were more free when they didn't have houses and lived in caves .. but houses remained
All were more free when they didn't have rulers and societies.. but governments remained
All were more free when there were no street signs and highways .. but cars remained
All were more free when there were .... what else ...  you name it .... 

Progress or regress .? both ?? . up to you to decide.... there is no way back

And if you want to live in the 21 century then live with it ..


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