The accumulate effect of government tracking. I can't walk outside for 100 meters without being on camera. I can't buy a bus ticket without linking the purchase and ride to my identity. Etc.
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This is it for me also. I drive rural back roads to work and pass under thirteen cameras (that I know of) that are tracking license plates and other data. Add in phones, etc it's insane. Local police department is also asking people to register their home cameras with them too, so that they have all the cameras.
Yes that's scary, democracy and laws only protect us to an extent. If the state changed we'd be in trouble.
Recommendation algorithms which are optimized to keep users hooked on a platform, rather than optimized for the best user experience, or truth, or happiness.
I think Alec Watson's video on this is excellent: Algorithms are breaking how we think (37:51)
This thing of moving everything to a cloud service. It all gets more expensive, interdependent, less reliable and your stuff is taken from you on the whim of some ceo.
It's part of why I want more support for stopkillinggames.com. It's not just games that are dissapearing after you buy them. It's heated seats in cars, cloud subscriptions for security cameras, etc.
But even worse than that, why does everything need to be an app on my phone?
Isn't it only really AAA games though? I am happy not buying Ubisoft products
Unfortunately companies like ea and ubisoft have these "indie support programs". Where they offer funding for indie devs, who often grow dependent on that funding. Then they threathen to pull the funding unless they develop what the publisher wants.
This is how trail out started amazing, then quickly got destroyed by ea. They never got to the point of properly polishing the game before they started pushing tons of mindless dlc's. In the end the rushed bug fixes and forced extras caused the game to run like garbage.
They took a good game we paid for, ruined it and tossed it aside. Unfortunately though, this problem won't be stopped with legislation as easy as the "stop killing games" thing
Yes, reject everything published by them.
Any gadget or device that connects to the internet. TVs, cell phones, gaming consoles, PCs, cars, ebikes, cameras (SO MANY CAMERAS), "smart speakers", home automation, etc.
Just because I am scared of them doesn't mean I don't use them, but I do refuse to connect them to the internet when possible, or else limit what data they are sending. It's exhausting though. I miss when the only devices that had internet connections were desktop computers.
Not tech per se but increase of always online services and ever more stringent security requirements.
AI. It's hard enough to work out what in the news is true. Now it's so easy to fake all sorts which has really scary impacts
Self-driving cars.
They're one hack away from being a mass murder machine that kills thousand to hundreds of thousands (depending on the size of the hack) all around a nation (or possibly even the world).
I agree. A car can be a lethal weapon capable of mass destruction.
You're looking at it.
Hitachi Magic wand makes me feel threatened
Mistaking LLMs for AI. Not because of the immature technology or the legally questionable procatices that made current levels possible, but the happy acception by the stupid and gullible, both in usage as in integration. I'm waiting for the first major catastrophe caused by outsourcing of a critical design to an LLM, being it a collapsing bridge, and exploding car, or an irresponsibly armed pseudo-AI controlled robot shooting people at random.