Tech firms will suggest any invasive nonsense that will make them money.
Those present included representatives of Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Palantir, which works closely with the US military
A completely unsurprising list of companies lol
Cyberpunk is a warning, not a goal.
It’s San Francisco’s instruction manual.
Monitoring in technology bros minds:
- we will prevent crime
Monitoring in real world:
- Look Johny according to this map this pedophile was near the school again
- I see no crime report from that area, did the auto-sentence software added him a month because he violated paragraph 124123415 ?
- No it crashed again, need to submit it manually, what a moron, now he have 100 years in prison, he will never get rid of this chip
- this new donuts place is awesome.
The 80’s tried to warn us but somehow these fuckers took it all as a manual
They will not use their massive amount of money and resources to create a society that eliminates the conditions that generate criminal behavior (scarcity, no communal support systems, etc.), but they will do this shit.
In other news, tech firms propose new idea for lucrative government contracts.
Come on, we don’t need tracking devices embedding under the skin.
Just use an AirTag. Much cheaper.