Posted on 10/23/2016 9:35:43 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
BEIJING Imagine a world where an authoritarian government monitors everything you do, amasses huge amounts of data on almost every interaction you make, and awards you a single score that measures how trustworthy you are.
In this world, anything from defaulting on a loan to criticizing the ruling party, from running a red light to failing to care for your parents properly, could cause you to lose points.
And in this world, your score becomes the ultimate truth of who you are determining whether you can borrow money, get your children into the best schools or travel abroad; whether you get a room in a fancy hotel, a seat in a top restaurant or even just get a date.
This is not the dystopian superstate of Steven Spielbergs Minority Report, in which all-knowing police stop crime before it happens. But it could be China by 2020.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
And the Compost looks on in approval.
Hillary, is that you? Sounds like your voice.
This is where the U.S. is headed.
Google has about that level of data on the vast majority of U.S. citizens.
Now think a Google-Clinton cooperation. Throw in Facebook for good measure.
We are very close.
We’re gonna win the country back, like I said.
Either the easy way (Trump wins) or the hard way.
I’d love the easy way!!
But either way, we’re taking it back.
LOL...the author seems to be flummoxed on word choice. He accidentally wrote “dystopia” when the word he was searching for was “utopia.”
This vision of the future gives the uniparty a big stiffy.
Will a perfect score be 666?
The new season of Black Mirror on Netflix has an episode that uses this concept as its premise.
China is now into “Science Fiction” territory.
Of course, the difference between the Black Mirror episode and the China story is that the populace in the SciFi episode WANTS to be rated, while in China, the totalitarian government is going to force it on their people.
Truth is stranger than fiction.
I have a Chinese colleague who told me how he was involved in a fraudulent credit card charge.
He was at the local “Public Security” office in Beijing, and they had all his road travel records from that time, with photos of him in his car, as well as credit card purchases at major stores, also with photos, times, etc...
This is the Orwellian Government’s dream - which is why Chinese has pushing hard technology for both military and monitoring.
David Brooks probably has an erection.
Also here:
I don’t really watch much TV any more, but i love the Black Mirror series carried on Netflix. The episode “Faceplant” is dead on about using modern tech and social ratings. (Btw, language/sexual content on the series) Also, good bit of the different stories cover the foul use of increasingly sophisticated technology.
That is what “The Internet of Things” is all about.
What’s in your fridge will now be sent to the Insurance Company. Oh you ate bacon........Claim Denied!
Sounds like Ødungo’s Amerika 2016
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