Bostrom on ubiquitous surveillance

“Nick Bostrom, one of the world’s top emerging technology experts, (says) ‘We (once) lived in small… tribes in which everyone knew everyone else,’ says the chairman of the World Transhumanist Association—a group of scientists and thinkers looking at technology and human capabilities. ‘But with the rise of metropolitan cities, we have got used to privacy and anonymity—ideas that would have been alien to our ancestors.’”

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