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March 21, 2018, 01:09:22 AM |
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The Facebooks of the future might be health and biological corporations, offering free health care services or enhancing biological and intellectual capacities in exchange for biodata (Yuval Harari).
Imagine a device that will improve health, lifespan, intelligence or allow instant access to information, that customers will have to use permanently and that will allow a corporation to monitor their biodata.
A device that will record their emotional reactions when confronted with information, political propaganda, products, services and that will allow the corporation to really know them.
Not just where they go, what they read or what they buy, but their emotions, likes and dislikes or inclinations.
That will allow it to predict in what party their customers will vote, what products and services they will buy, if they have criminal or political rebellious inclinations, etc.
Governments won’t need to buy this information. Dictatorial ones will make these devices mandatory; others will demand this information from these corporations.
Of course, it’s this what Facebook, Google or Microsoft (yes, don’t forget to opt out all the information that Windows 10 give about you by default) do: give free services in exchange for information about their customers, that they use to show ads or that they will sell to third parties.
These developments will just go a few steps closer to know the customer better than himself and, therefore, easily manipulate or control him.
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