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• New York Post: China’s ‘Social Credit System’ Is Dystopian Nightmare

  20-05-2019 16:45 via technocracy.news
  Public awareness of this approaching dystopia is growing, thanks to articles in major publications, but few have made the connection with the larger issue of Technocracy, to which China is fully committed. ⁃ TN EditorImagine calling a friend. Only instead of hearing a ring tone you hear a police siren, and then a voice intoning, “Be careful in your dealings with this person.”
  Would that put a damper on your relationship? It’s supposed to.
  Welcome to life in China’s
  
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• Cities Are Adopting Real-Time Facial Surveillance Systems

  20-05-2019 16:29 via technocracy.news
  Because there is no Federal legislation preventing its use, cities are gobbling up China-style facial recognition systems. Individual cities can easily block this surveillance technology, but citizens are sound asleep and completely oblivious to the destruction of their own civil liberties. ⁃ TN EditorCivil Liberties Activists trying to inspire alarm about the authoritarian potential of facial recognition technology often point to China, where some police departments use systems that can s
  
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• The Rise Of Hotel Robots In Seattle Worries Workers

  20-05-2019 16:12 via technocracy.news
  The Technocrat mindset is to invent efficient technology that will displace inefficient humans, but there is no substitute for real human interaction. The sales pitch is always that robots will improve the workplace, but instead they displace workers altogether. ⁃ TN EditorA couple of months ago, Justin Adsuara was surprised to see a waist-height robot scooting through the hallways of the Embassy Suites by Hilton. The glowing white cylinder was accompanied by an operator teaching it t
  
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