Dark Times

Via email by Gustavo Rodríguez

All antagonism, all resistance, all criticism, all dissent, and all seditious attempts can now be predicted based on the automatic detection of data patterns. Hence, algorithmic domination can anticipate the next move and “put the band-aid before the wound appears”. However, we continue to await the arrival of a dystopian future without realizing that the massive processing of data for the purposes of social control, hand in hand with the accelerated technological revolution, has already established that dystopia here and now. While many comrades remain lost, engrossed in a futile struggle against outdated windmills, absolute social control has been established with the help of new technologies. These are prediction machines, “whose goal—according to Pariser—is to constantly create and refine a theory about who you are, what you will do, and what you will desire next”.i

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