Amazing what kind of thoughts the brain can produce.
In China, there is a surveillance camera brand that has sold 175 million cameras today. That is over one camera for every 10 persons. Cameras that are always switched on. Which pry everywhere on, through or into. Sending data non-stop to algorithms to make blurry images – at least for the human eye – visible to the machine. In order to observe a reality that can be twisted at will.
Or so I think. Nobody knows exactly what happens to this massive data stream. Nobody seems to fear that at some point, recordings turn into projections.
Crazy things can happen when we override our own senses. The consequences to humanity of a state pushing surveillance down the throat of its own population may, in the long run, be evident. But what about other everyday matters, where impenetrable black boxes are now common, such as in health, love, matter, cooking, food, internet?
An MRI, an exploratory surgery, a blood test… everything is collected digitally and trusted blindly. Do we always know what kind of interests are involved, who sits behind the keyboard?
Can big pharma turn a healthy woman into a patient? Is big tech capable of driving love between 2 people? Can authoritarian states reduce access to the real world through digital manipulation and thus build a simplified world on its own territory? Who is the robot that controls me?
Written on January 14, 2019