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A Strange Stain in the Sky: How Silicon Valley Is Preparing A Coup Against Democracy (allr.cat)
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The first, and also the most futuristic techno-utopian one, is the colonisation of Mars. Elon Musk founded Space X in 2002 (Peter Thiel was the first outside investor) with the idea of re-founding humanity. It’s all there: the call to save humanity by turning it into a multi-planetary species, the desire to start from scratch without the legal constraints of Earth, and the will to break with the established order. As you can read, half-hidden, on the terms and conditions page of the Starlink service owned by Space X:

The parties recognize Mars as a free planet and that no Earth-based government has authority or sovereignty over Martian activities.

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[–] BeNotAfraid@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

Paper and pencils aren't access points to infinite dopamine. Paper and pencil don't have algorithms so disgustingly invasive they detect when a teenage girl uploads and then immediately removes a photo. Recognise that as self-conciousness and bombard them with cosmetic advertisements to sell to her. Paper and pencils aren't 50% owned by a company that profiteered out of stealing your user data and selling it to Amazon. Who then used their gains to purchase every single emerging technology company in the world. Alphabet bought Google Maps, They Purchased Google Earth, They acquired the company that became Google Glass, they bought Google Sheets and android is just a fork of the Linux Kernel that they blocked the root directory from the User. Then they added spyware to each of them and have been collecting mass amounts of Data on every human being in the world ever since. Do not equate this to paper and pencil. Look what tech did to the Taxi industry, look at how it's decimated the restaurant industry. Forbes has predicted a 50% drop in global GDP to occur sometime between 2070-2090. Humanity has never been addicted to paper and pencil. This is not paper and pencil.