Re:HN never used to focus on people and shallow politics
by lkgj on Monday January 14, 2013 @08:22PM
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Technological misunderstanding isn't at the root of this problem. Maybe a misunderstanding of motivations, or a zeal to prosecute people who don't follow the rules, or just a criminal system that's too punitive overall.
None of the discussions I've read offer real political or social insight. What everyone's doing, instead, is the typically American thing of trying to work out how to respond to a crisis that has already happened.
The fact is that as we march down the technology path, we must be very very aware of the affects on our government our advancement down that path has.
In most cases, we are seeing that not only is our government wholly ill-equipped to deal with a technologically advanced populous - they are also, potentially, criminally liable for malfeasance.
There have been a whole hell of a lot of posts about AS, but he is just the subject of something far more important: having a technologically savvy and capable government in a technologically advancing civilization.