https://medium.com/s/story/your-privacy-is-over-ed72d06418f1 Three Things Should Frighten You government is using data to control the country’s population able to create a digital profile of each person’s actions, affiliations, statements, acts, and misdemeanors. On this, people are “scored” within a “social credit” system and rewarded or penalized accordingly. how much corporations know about us without us knowing. how companies that manipulate public opinion are operating in a way that very few people, and clearly not our lawmakers, can really understand. quantum computing will soon be able to break modern encryption, laying open everything we so far thought was private and safe, and more powerful computers will be able to search and map this data going back through digital time. Most of all, I feel for our children... [...] Ultimately, everything will be tracked by the state, connected by ever more sophisticated algorithms, run on ever more powerful computers, until dissent becomes impossible and there is no escape. How do you oppose a system like that? [...] Otherwise we are moving into a world where the people creating the future technologies in artificial intelligence, genetics, quantum computing, search capabilities, and surveillance, to name but a handful of areas, will be doing so unencumbered by ethical and democratic controls. [...] I’m worried.