Re:Computers are an oppressive technology
by coldtea on Sunday June 12, 2022 @07:25AM
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>This oppressiveness is not inherent to computers, it's inherent to the people and institutions making use of them. The examples in the article say it all: government bureaucracies, beverage dispensers.
Well, to build things at the modern computer industry scale, you need government bureaucracies, huge corporations, tons of discipline, from the assembly line to the cobalt mines, and enterprises and bureaucracies with a use for it, 99% to streamline control, control more effectively and wider, and penny pinch customers even better.
Now, give surveillance, instant indexed cataloguing, 24/7 tracking, remote controllable money and id access and more, to the same governments and corporations, and that's just going to point to more control.
Well, to build things at the modern computer industry scale, you need government bureaucracies, huge corporations, tons of discipline, from the assembly line to the cobalt mines, and enterprises and bureaucracies with a use for it, 99% to streamline control, control more effectively and wider, and penny pinch customers even better.
Now, give surveillance, instant indexed cataloguing, 24/7 tracking, remote controllable money and id access and more, to the same governments and corporations, and that's just going to point to more control.