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What does it mean to be human in this Technological Age

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JPMorgan to invest up to $10 billion in US companies with crucial ties to national security

So when you invest, you see a way to make money. JP Morgan sees it can make money from the US government through national security.

I think it will be very similar to the contracted jail system in the USA.

For JP Morgan to make profit, it needs victims....

When I went to school, a prevailing thought at the time was that Canada had free thinkers unlike what they had in Russia, where they had no freedom of expression for political ideology/criticism of government.

Come to the question is technology being used to squeeze freedoms out of the general populace due to fear of terror and war.

The misuse of technology has long been a subject of science fiction writing. Books we read in high school (1984 and Lord of the Flies), is that where governments are going? Totalitarianism and segregated/cast system for societies?
 

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JPMorgan to invest up to $10 billion in US companies with crucial ties to national security

The misuse of technology has long been a subject of science fiction writing. Books we read in high school (1984 and Lord of the Flies), is that where governments are going? Totalitarianism and segregated/cast system for societies?
Lord of the Flies has very little technology in it -- really more Hobbsian in the view of 'life without society is 'nasty, brutish and short'.

1984 is much more predictive of where we are headed, and, one could argue, have already arrived.
 

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80watts I thought "When I went to school, a prevailing thought at the time was that Canada (in my case UK) had free thinkers unlike what they had in Russia, where they had no freedom of expression for political ideology/criticism of government.” too, although I read Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World, and 1984

Noam Chomsky’s spectrum of thinkable thought added to all that makes me very concerned for the future.
 
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Follow the money. Fractional reserve banking barely a century old will keep packing the planet with more occupants to keep the markets up and sleepless nights.
 
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