Big data + authoritarian governance = techno-totalitarianism. At least that’s the equation we’re most familiar with, and the route that appears to be being laid out in Xi’s China, according to this lengthily researched New York Times piece. (To be fair, the authors only use “techno-authoritarianism,” and the titular and subtitular “-totalitarianism” gloss appears to […]
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Is there life after ‘big data’?
Posted in Politics, Science & society, tagged authoritarianism, big data, China, governance, libertarianism, Project Cybersyn, surveillance, surveillance capitalism, surveillance culture, Xi Jinping on June 27, 2022 | Leave a Comment »
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