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Coronavirus Is Forcing Us to Use Technology Correctly, For Now.
But What about Later?
Drones. Facial Recognition. Number plate recognition. Cellphone geographical tracking. Body temperature monitoring. Cameras. Artificial Intelligence.
In fact, all kinds of surveillance technology are being used in an apparent campaign against the coronavirus, COVID-19.
Just for a change, those technologies are being used correctly; towards the welfare of humanity.
Thoughts of saving the economy are necessarily giving way, to thoughts of saving humanity.
Even better, thoughts of repairing the economy are being questioned.
What the coronavirus crisis has done, is accelerate use of surveillance technologies to a level which would absolutely and very obviously be dystopian, if it was not being done for our own good.
Surveillance technology for profit, by governments and big business was proceeding, mostly by stealth, with occasional public outcry, following revelations by folk like Julian…
