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RE: The IoT will Become a Means for Centralized Control: Future Forecast and Understanding your Options
hi @zoidsoft, nice post about the eventualities of IT. I have a slightly different view.
technology like religion is a tool for control. there is no altruistic region to be able to spread technology, except for gain. whether that tech is decentralized or not, it is a fact that a set of people will control its usage.
if we really do not want to be ruled, then we must step away from technology and all the good that it brings. Because the bad far outweighs everything else in so much as the issue of control is concerned.
a dystopian future awaits otherwise
I can prove your characterization of technology as hopelessly controlled is incorrect. Further, if the only means of being free is to abnegate technology, most of humanity will die if we seek freedom.
Technology includes clothing, pointy sticks, and fire. Clearly, such technology is not under the control of an elite. You can make them yourself. The current revolution in technology that is most transcendent is the prospect of making advanced technology entirely personally controlled. 3D printing, cryptocurrency, aquaponics - all these things enable an individual or community to employ high technology without interference (regulation) from outside the community.
This is a paradigm shift equivalent to abnegating technology in terms of disabling corruption, regulation, and social control, but modern medicine, agriculture, and all other benefits of advanced technology - upon which most of humanity is utterly dependent for survival - remain available to society.
I have lived in the forest, and in cities. Most people are not able to live in the forest, and your position that to be free they must abandon technology leaves them with the choice: submit or die.
That is a false dichotomy. Either we embrace the new paradigm that advanced technology is creating, or we are going to die in droves. Please reconsider your position, so that you can add your personal power to those of us gaining our freedom, and speed the transformation of society to a free and voluntary beneficial association from the dystopian global police state that bad actors are trying to impose on us.
the future of any technology today is to let a few people control millions. this is true even in blockchains. every single step forward is to press automation forward. we are living in an illusory world if we dont acknowledge that jobs will be lost. Just because a few aspiring and capable people get together and create a community does not mean that millions of other people are not left out in the cold.
mankind's curse to the world is technology that kills jobs, disconnects society from nature and stymies personal growth.
You have not acknowledged my point. Absent direct discussion which deals with the points each make, we aren't having a conversation. Since you're ignoring what I said, I'll await your doing so before I correct this comment.