The future is total surveillance for total compliance of every action, word, and thought. This is the world we are bringing into being with technology.
The unavoidable telos of technological means is totalitarian power.
The unavoidable telos of technological means is totalitarian power.
Bitcoin is permanently and publicly recorded money.
Urbit is append-only (ie permanently recorded) computing.
Decentralization is a lie. There is only the ever expanding reach of power, and the obsolete institutions that it sweeps away.
Urbit is append-only (ie permanently recorded) computing.
Decentralization is a lie. There is only the ever expanding reach of power, and the obsolete institutions that it sweeps away.
In the future, the only social and intellectual structure to survive will be that explicitly or implicitly permitted by central power. Resistance will be impossible. There will be no domain of personal sovereignty, only permitted and delegated autonomy.
The internet centralizes all information into a single totally surveilled layer.
Your phone records everything you do and say.
Global trade is economic centralization.
Brain-computer interfaces empower the computer, not the brain.
You will be assimilated.
Your phone records everything you do and say.
Global trade is economic centralization.
Brain-computer interfaces empower the computer, not the brain.
You will be assimilated.
Military grade encryption requires secure private computing, which is increasingly unavailable to any but the biggest military industrial complexes.
You can keep lone hackers out, but you are completely and unavoidably pwned by the Empire.
You can keep lone hackers out, but you are completely and unavoidably pwned by the Empire.
You think your irrelevance will save you from total compliance. It won't. As social complexity and central powers advance, you will be increasingly micromanaged as an individual.
You will think the wrong thoughts, and it will be a rare and reprehensible scandal.
You will think the wrong thoughts, and it will be a rare and reprehensible scandal.
As technology of communication advances, we will reach the final state where society is dominated totally (in every detail) by a single will and its autonomous delegates.
The final state is the totalitarian hive mind.
The final state is the totalitarian hive mind.
This is the big medium-term question for philosophically inclined futurists: How do we salvage the things we care about in a future of technological totalitarianism?
