(October 11, 2018 at 2:48 am)Pandæmonium Wrote: Was just about to quote black mirror.

China is a fucked up place.

I was thinking the same thing.

(October 11, 2018 at 2:51 am)Kit Wrote:

(October 11, 2018 at 2:48 am)Pandæmonium Wrote: Was just about to quote black mirror.

China is a fucked up place.

I was thinking the same thing.

Why? I would think the left would be all over this. From booting people off Twitter to harassing people in restaurants, you're already doing it informally.

(October 11, 2018 at 6:06 am)alpha male Wrote:

(October 11, 2018 at 2:51 am)Kit Wrote: I was thinking the same thing.

Why? I would think the left would be all over this. From booting people off Twitter to harassing people in restaurants, you're already doing it informally.

Um........ yeah, Cuz it's only the left that judge people. Good one.

Life copying art?

See - The Orville - season 1 episode 7 - "Majority Rules".

(October 10, 2018 at 9:22 pm)Tres Leches Wrote: I was listening to a program on NPR yesterday and they talked about China's social credit system, which is supposed to be fully implemented by 2020. Citizen's social behaviors are surveilled via data mining and then converted into a score.
It's not just one's own behavior that goes into the score, it's also the people around them - friends, family, etc. If they have a family member or friend that "behaves" poorly, down goes the score.
We already have this on a smaller scale in the west and I have little doubt this full-fledged monitoring and scoring will come to western countries, including the US. Too bad there's no way you can opt out or choose not to participate.
What say you?

I heard that same program.  Yeah, it's spooky.  It would require a degree of monitoring of personal behavior which -- at least in the US -- hasn't been implemented yet.  But I do see tendencies in that direction.  "1984" didn't suddenly become reality in 1984, but is has crept up on us in the subsequent 30-odd years, and few seem to have noticed, or cared.  

When I leave home I'm more less potentially under constant video surveillance, and how the hell did that happen?  Every store from the giganto chains to the few mom-and-pops corner stores left have me on camera from the moment I enter "for 'my' protection".  The supermarkets pick me up in the parking lot.  And that's just a hand off from the cameras mounted over the traffic lights in every major intersection.

We don't have government-mandated TVs in every home, but the smart phones most people seem to carry around are even better -- built-in GPS assures that the powers that be can know exactly where you are at all times, and they can beam their political and corporate messages directly to your pocket.   An entire generation has relinquished its right to privacy, and most don't even seem to realize it.

It only stands to reason that the receivers and stockpilers of all that data are going to put it to use, and what better use than remote social control?

Prepare to move over, humans.  Time for the ants and roaches to inherit the Earth.

Fun fact, 1984 was actually a comment on the then-current reality of the UK, as far as the author saw it....from 1948. It certainly is incredible how much dystopian sci fi found it's way into reality.