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Europol predicts a 2035 with no privacy, robot police, robots displacing workers, debates about "robot rights" and criminals commanding hundreds of drones simultaneously (cdn.videy.co)

submitted 4 days ago by StopTech@lemmy.today to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/49749386

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Clipped from full hour long video (around 49 minutes in): https://www.removedute.com/video/jmhFAjqbxnQ

Europol report: https://www.europol.europa.eu/cms/sites/default/files/documents/The-Unmanned-Future-Report.pdf

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[–] m532@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is completely unfeasible. Convincing a bunch of people won't cut it. For this to work, you'd need to rule the whole world with an iron fist, and then there'd still be secret resistance research labs everywhere.

[–] StopTech@lemmy.today 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Ruling with an iron fist tends to create resistance and without mass surveillance technology an unpopular regime couldn't keep everyone in line. But if instead most people are in agreement about something being bad (like they are with slavery or pedophilia) then there is much less resistance to enforcement against it (whether that's centralized or decentralized enforcement) and therefore that thing is more effectively stopped.

While lone individuals or small secretive groups could continue doing the bad practice, in terms of technology I don't think this will matter much because they won't be able to develop a lot of technology with only a small group of people who aren't building on other people's work and their technology also wouldn't be adopted by a society that is against it.