(01-18-2019, 08:59 AM)IndigoGeminiWolf Wrote: Yeah, though if you try to free yourself from being a slave, the system turns against you, and life then sucks.
I saw in some news about a guy in China who can no longer ride the bus, or get plane tickets, or anything really, because the government didn't like what he said in an article.
So they closed him out of the system.
This is what is going on right now.
There are systems used to analyze job applicants, for instance. You will be allowed or denied job based on some "A.I." algo analyzing data it collected about you from google , facebook, likes , twits and very possible some proprietary data sets like Alexa etc.
Also they use facial recognition software to predict how good (or BAD) of an employee you will be.
Banks already use Tweets, likes and other social media data (your browsing behavior) to identify if they should give you credit cards or a mortgage, to predict how well you will pay it.
This is going on right now.
It's not even necessarily the government as also the group of these Billion dollar high tech corporations as well.
They are, essentially , going to eliminate good education for the masses and only create tech. elite via what they are trying to do - online training ("that will replace education") etc. Only people with tech regalia will be able to have access to top levels - and those will be either connected or rich (because you are going to get your kids through various online classes, trainings etc. that are targeting very NARROW, very specific skills related to math and computers, while majority won't even know they exist). So in the end there will be 1% of technologically non-elected highly paid group, and 99% of have-nots.
What is coming, probably , is the financial collapse of the Unicorns, and another .com bubble burst. So..we are going to see some of these data collecting and processing companies go bust due to lack of funding. They also get financing through Wall Street bankers, so as we are having bankers crunch, financing will somewhat disappear. And if we are lucky to get our taxes lowered yet more by Trump admin, there will be yet less money going to these companies. And as computations in these fields are huge, hardware requirements are extensive etc. majority just won't survive. Now...it'll consolidate...is consolidation better or worse? Don't know.