The Dream of the Techbro Fascist
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In case you were wondering what our techbro betters have in store for us:
George Orwell’s 1984 warned of a future where Big Brother watches every move. Today, modern technology is making that vision a reality, and Oracle founder Larry Ellison—the world’s second-richest person—sees a growing opportunity for his company to help authorities analyze real-time data from millions of surveillance cameras.
“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.
The world Ellison described sounds eerily similar to China’s social credit system, which controls citizens’ behavior through a network of cameras using some of the world’s most advanced facial recognition software to surveil their populace.
Nevertheless, his prediction may already be here in a sense.
Nowadays, it’s commonplace for Americans to whip out their smartphone and film their fellow citizens before uploading it to social media.
In Ellison’s view, citizens and state security organs like the police monitoring their every move will, however, be on an equal playing field.
He expects law enforcement officers will also be subject to constant surveillance.
“Every police officer is going to be supervised at all times, and if there’s a problem, AI will report that problem,” he said, in comments cited by Tech Crunch.
Whether this kind of 24-7 surveillance of everyone and everything means law enforcement will automatically be on their best behavior is, however, debatable.
Yeah, you think?
Anyway, I fully expect this to be the reality of life by the end of the decade or so.