Discussion for article #227657
Itâs people, not technology, that makes an âOrwellianâ world; both the perpetrators and the indifferent bystanders.
Itâs also people that make a Teahadi world; both the perpetrators and the indifferent bystanders.
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Catch up Sonia, itâs already here.
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YEP,YES, & Bingo !
That âbuzzingâ sound you hear may not be a lawn trimmer or a leaf blower especially if you live in the hood,look up !!
For the people who respond, âItâs already happening,â try to imagine where this technology will be in 10 or 20 years. I think thatâs what Sotomayor is getting at. The horse may be out of the barn already, but in another decade, heâll be driving the tractor down the highway.
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This is certainly not a message that should be given in OK where they are already trying to stifle education, science and womenâs rights. This message will be fodder for people like Inhofe who say there is no climate change.
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There are cameras everywhere. The NSA has access to everything but the USPS snail mailâŚand maybe that, too?
Drones are like telescopes in one sense. But they can carry a payload that could be used by a stalker to disable their victims, as well. I donât like the idea of complete strangers hovering overhead while they determine if I deserve the respect of keeping my life.
This brings up images from War of the WorldsâŚnot to mention bird droppings hitting me out of nowhere. Creepy and perhaps unsafe at the same time?
If everyone gets one, there will be so much traffic youâll have them crashing into things and each other causing a lot of collateral damage to real living human beings below. We will all have to wear helmets and carry first aid kits?
Say goodbye to peace and quiet much less whatâs left of your privacy. At least cars stay on streets.
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All new technology has the potential for good and evil. It will be used both ways.
The debate is always about how it is managed and by whom. The genie canât be put back in the bottle just like you canât unring a bell.
It can also lead to accountability and change. See: social mediaâs effect on the same sex marriage debate. Once the people who grew up with social media (and data networks in general) get their hands on the reins of power, we can expect much more automation, and less reliance on âbeliefâ as the basis for governing.
Like a world where the NSA listens in on everybody and anybody, friend and foe, Congress and foreign Chancellor, and if someone tells the world about it he is called a traitor? Get out, would never happen. What an Orwellian imagination.
Little Brother has to keep up (as well as he can) with Big Brother.
A Two Minute Hug every day would be a start.
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What would Orwell say about Corporations as People, something Ms. Sotomayorâs colleagues has made real? Except for the capital punishment part, of course.
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âcould leadâ⌠iâd say itâs well underway and beyond the point it can be reeled in.
ââŚCouldâŚâ??? LOL Uh no. Itâs here.
Google âBig Brotherâ and the entire page there isnât one reference to Orwellâs novelâŚIts all the CBS âreality game showâ.
âBut if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.â
â George Orwell, 1984
Yep.
She also went on to predict color televisionâŚ
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" The Matrix " - the machines are already here .
And we âmight becomeâ a corporate-controlled religion-opiated fascist state. Got it.
The drones are bad enough, we should at once have a global treaty making it illegal for any country group or person to build a robot that is designed to, and capable of killing a human.
I would guess the US has these or will soon unfortunately. Much as the US wonât sign the chemical weapons treaty, or quit making land mines, I would guess the frightening Orwellian USA war machine would love to have killer robots to herd us all about.