It is just about the future. We know how politics works. We read about the extensive measures put into place to make this a temporary program. (Sign, Resign). The real concern is how fast things changed. How our friends that watch the news did not care about that changing privacy. They did not understand it. To busy using that device that is destroying there privacy. It is fun to use. What happens next when we want to dig a little deeper…what will our culture turn into then?
Will they be too busy working, making things better, or playing, forgetting about work to take the time to write and say, I would like to think and be my myself. To say: Once I know something is there, I cannot forget that it exists…I cannot ignore it. Will they change? Will you change? Humanity has been fighting the good fight since we wanted to learn to control ourselves. No death, no theft. We want good to prevail…we want freedom…we want to exercise that freedom to build, create, and do things that the world has never seen. We want to impress.
The world is a bad place with people and organizations that have bad intentions to do bad things. How can we stop them in the now? I think we are on track to doing that. We monitor, peruse, and prevail. We make mistakes…but…there is this one thing. It is just the future. The future that a select few of us worry about. We have read, studied, built, and thought about those dreams which are the future.
We dream and see technology that some could never fathom, we want to make it, we want to see it made. We see others like us make it. We see others use that technology for destructive purposes. We do not like it. When the next technological feat is discovered, created, marketed, and changes humanity forever…..how we are going to use it? Are we going to use it to limit ideas and flow of information? Are we going to use it to discover the untold secrets of the universe, the surface of something we have not even scratched yet? Are we even going to know about it or have access to it in our lives? Is it going to be limited to the elite? What are they going to do with it?
Who decides? The government? The public? The inventor?
Because right now, it is the past. We are forcing some of the most creative people in the world to adapt to the same technology that we use to control the worst people in the world. We are changing the shape of our very own shared existence because we are afraid. We are all afraid to speak, to share, and to know. We do not need to just watch, we need to tell. We need to show., We need to share. We need to enable. If we don’t then what are we going to tell our children, children’s children, and even the generation after that when they ask: Why can’t we talk and think about that?