Re:Could a Bank Deny Your Loan Based on Your Facebook Friends?
by coldtea on Friday October 02, 2015 @08:37PM
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>It's going to take further generational change to adapt to those new possibilities and decide how -- and even if -- we should use that technology.
The problem is for most things we're not doing any deciding. We just invent new technology, and then we have to live with its consequences, while never stopping and thinking about it or actually and democratically deciding if we should use it and how we should restrict it.
All that with the sole exception of when there's comercial interests at stake. Then we go out of our way to prevent the technology from messing with them, e.g. adding DRM to help with copyright. But for everything that can mess up the lives of millions of people (be it because of lifestyle changes, environmental damage, invasion of privacy, etc) we either never get to decide and restrict consequences, or we do very little of it.
The problem is for most things we're not doing any deciding. We just invent new technology, and then we have to live with its consequences, while never stopping and thinking about it or actually and democratically deciding if we should use it and how we should restrict it.
All that with the sole exception of when there's comercial interests at stake. Then we go out of our way to prevent the technology from messing with them, e.g. adding DRM to help with copyright. But for everything that can mess up the lives of millions of people (be it because of lifestyle changes, environmental damage, invasion of privacy, etc) we either never get to decide and restrict consequences, or we do very little of it.