What is scary about the modern world is just how much damage can be caused by a handful of people thanks to technology. They don’t need millions of people to run their gestapo if they have the NSA surveilling the internet, a network of facial recognition enabled surveillance cameras, military gear that would let a handful of agents take on anything short of an armed mob, and drone strikes for the ones they can’t even be bothered to capture.
There aren’t a lot of psychos, but it really doesn’t take that many to cause problems if nobody else has the will or capacity to fight back. And this will make oodles of money for “defense” contractors.
I feel like that’s the consequence we get for spending the last century advancing technology (to feed our hunger), but not advancing our governance systems (ti resist our greed).
What is scary about the modern world is just how much damage can be caused by a handful of people thanks to technology. They don’t need millions of people to run their gestapo if they have the NSA surveilling the internet, a network of facial recognition enabled surveillance cameras, military gear that would let a handful of agents take on anything short of an armed mob, and drone strikes for the ones they can’t even be bothered to capture.
There aren’t a lot of psychos, but it really doesn’t take that many to cause problems if nobody else has the will or capacity to fight back. And this will make oodles of money for “defense” contractors.
One can only hope that a sufficiently-motivated populace can destroy them faster than they can be replaced.
I feel like that’s the consequence we get for spending the last century advancing technology (to feed our hunger), but not advancing our governance systems (ti resist our greed).