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Maybe they'll lower your rates by figuring out how often you're ill. Similarly with life insurance. Or they might not change.

Maybe someone will try to blackmail you and your congressman husband, but both of you will just shrug, because no one cares at all about nudes. Not even you, after a few more decades of information wanting to be free and becoming free and public.

Maybe it's better that you didn't get those jobs and you find something else. With all the extra data out there, maybe there'll be a service that'll match you up with doing something you really want to do that fulfills your soul instead of sucks it.

Why do you suppose that with more information election manipulation will be one-sided in favor of certain manipulators over other manipulators or even suppressors? I'm told FB does a great job suppressing all kinds of data from spreading, I don't imagine they'll get worse at it. We also have all the other manipulators manipulating in exactly the opposite direction as any particular manipulator you want to call out. Seems like a wash.

Your concerns all boil down to big maybes about mildly increased financial burden and people increasing their sensitivity to private info being exposed despite decades of trends implying the opposite. In the hands of a Caesar, this isn't the power to reshape the Earth at all, especially when it's never going to be in the hands of one entity.



That's a whole lot a Maybe that's drastically at odds with millenia of human nature and human history.


drastically at odds with Corporate nature and Corporate history.


>this isn't the power to reshape the Earth at all

Then why are there so many tech companies obsessed with "changing the world"?

None of your rebuttal did anything to negate the fact that big data can be and is used as a weapon the likes of which the world has never seen before.




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