[dustingetz]

"when the State becomes a computer"

I think reading that sentence is enough to be bone-chillingly horrified, and nationalizing the necessary data is the first step towards making it inevitable

[Terr_]

Becomes? Many modern states were designed to be that way from the start. The Constitutions are their core operating-systems, running on a substrate of human decision-making.

[folksinger]

At least we can both agree that we are talking about how we interpret and react to hypothetical utterances on the internet.

[dustingetz]

i see your point that this is all hypothetical stuff from intellectual books.

BUT, the people in power get to decide the course of the earth. It's humans all the way up. The hypothetical becomes real over time and when it gets here, it is too late to plan.

TLDR books are important