OK, this blog has made some pretty wild predictions over the years; from loss of privacy & security, through societal decay from social media & 24/7 connectivity, mass unemployment by AI & automation, to industrial environmental catastrophe and a technocapitalist Armageddon. Now there’s clear evidence of the first of these forecasts coming true, any chance of taking any of the others seriously? Maybe before it’s too late might be a good idea?
Daily Archives: Monday 1st October 2018
And So It Begins?
By Vic Grout
1 Comment | tags: Emerging technologies, Face recognition, Privacy, Social impact of technology, Technocapitalism | posted in Algorithms, Computer Science, Computing, Philosophy, Politics, Software

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