The shape of a 21st century I don’t want to see

Re:The shape of a 21st century I don’t want to see by jgh on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @07:49AM (#17125225)

The problem, the way I see it, is that a lot of the problems that are going to be coming to a head over the next decades aren't even really from malevolence. It's just ignorance, incompetence, and not really working together. Of course there are bad actors (e.g. the oil industry) who spread FUD and discord when it comes to the things they are interested in, but mostly it's humanity being too disorganized to really fix problems. Humanity being too short-sighted to see what the culmination of individual, otherwise innocuous, steps toward prolific data collection would mean.

Did you imagine in 2006 when you first joined Facebook that some day it would impact your immigration status? Likely not.

So going back to what you said yes there are lots of good people with good intentions, but along the way to creating our problems have been good people with good intentions.

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Re:The shape of a 21st century I don’t want to see by miiiiiike on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @08:02AM (#17125276)

We don't disagree on much of that. The road to hell is paved with good intentions, people will act in poor faith, etc. Although, yes, I've always believed that anything that I say, anywhere, can and will be used against me.

What I do think is unlikely/hyperbolic is the global "soft genocide" and organized "culling" that he describes in the post.

I'm not much for Utopians or Dystopians, they're always trying to sell me something.

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Re:The shape of a 21st century I don’t want to see by jgh on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @08:29AM (#17125407)

Yeah I doubt it would be organized as stated. Probably more along the lines of various restrictive immigration policies and sanctions which, perhaps inadvertently, lead to famine and war.

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