The world we have is ugly enough, but tech capitalists desire an even uglier one. The logical conclusion of having a society run by tech capitalists interested in elite rule, eugenics, and social control is ecological ruin and a world dominated by surveillance and apartheid. A world where our technological prowess is finely tuned to advance the exploitation, repression, segregation, and even extermination of people in service of some strict hierarchy.
If you’re posting here, you’re probably familiar with most of the stuff in this article already, but it’s nice to see criticism in this vein coming from more mainstream sources.
At the risk of oversimplification, I think these Silicon Valley types think that the humanity must serve their technologies and feed their databases, which in turn, will serve only the tech companies. This happens to be their pattern for decades.
while google was still publishing a coherent mission statement, that was almost exactly it: the entire world should be quantified so that google can consume it