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A Boring Dystopia
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It isn't just a surveillance state, they are 100% building a behavior prediction algorithm state.
The US government already started pre-crime policing. No future tense about it, full on dystopia is already here.
John Oliver just did an episode on Police Surveillance Technology. It's sad and scary stuff.
He also mentioned Atlas of Surveillance, a website to check what's going on in your area.
Season 3 of Westworld seems to be a bit more realistic than I had initially thought.