'If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever'
This is a well written but deeply-depressing-read. Its like 1984 where they relish the death of the orgasm. Its pretty clear we are in a 2 horse race now. People who care and are aware (follow the Reg or read the occasional warning article on TheVerge / Bloomberg or other sites). i.e.
Surveillance capitalism/We are the native people's now/Data is Destiny
Then there's everyone else... Willingly enslaved. Selling us out because of poor Privacy choices! We're just caught up in the net because we happen to run in the same circles by fluke or by birth. This is beyond bias / hating of tech firms, this is real! Its just sick / sad how long any of this has taken to get exposure. Thiel-Palantir - Zuk - Page/Brin and Schmidt are looking down from their ivory towers celebrating the death of the 'privacy orgasm', their boot stamping on a human face - forever'.
Because that's what Surveillance-Capitalism / Data-Slurp is - forever!
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"What follows over the next few pages is not just a product assessment, but an attempt to see what the product means at a historical moment in technology: where the elites and possibly the public too become aware of the true cost of personal data processing. For Google now has a class-leading data collection tool. What's it going to do with it?"
"Now please park for a moment the idea of whether you think Google is "evil" or not. The power to identify the location of almost every individual instantly is the power totalitarians dream about. The pertinent question is whether anyone should have so much power.
'With the political and media classes only just waking up to what Facebook has been doing for years, Google has an interesting choice to make. Google could restore consumer confidence in the company, and stay one step ahead of the regulators, if it saw it as a aid to radically improve personal data protection. Or it can carry on boiling the lobster."
Biting the hand that feeds IT
