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Music is another parallel. In the past, if you wanted to hear a new release, you paid for an LP, or cassette or CD, which you owned and which you could listen to until you wore it out.
Now you can buy an MP3 file, which you own until tech companies decide not to support MP3 software anymore. Or you can buy the opportunity to listen to that song from cloud storage, and you have zero control over its availability when the tech company unilaterally decides to eliminate it from its catalog. If you really want to continue to listen to what you've paid for, you can spend the time creating your own library by, gasp, burning some CD's, until the requisite software and hardware disappear courtesy of the tech companies.
And we just talking about tech here. More concerning, to me anyway, are mega-technocrats like Amazon leveraging their way into everything else from retail into tech into groceries into shipping into... This one company has tremendous control over what we read, listen to, watch, eat, wear, and wipe our butts with simply because they've eliminated most of their competition.
The default configuration had been to phone home with keys. If I understand correctly, they have since implemented options regarding where to save the key on professional and enterprise releases. Of course this applies in instances where the user makes an effort to encrypt, whereas most will simply run with the encryption as it came with the device and on the Home edition, lacking the extra length of leash supplied by full Bitlocker functionality.
It looks like a lot of public schools have taken up some introductory to coding. This is good though I do wonder how much of it will translate into lasting knowledge. I know just how well I held on to the Spanish that was mandatory in my schooling, and it wasn't much. I maintain that attaining basic literacy in anything will always require some motive and investment. And so long as we have schools which are teaching digital dependence rather than independence, it will be one of the driving forces marching us toward OP's technocracy.
This is very misleading. You have connect your Windows to your Microsoft/OneDrive account for it to backup your keys online. It's not phoning home so Microsoft can have a copy of your keys. By default, Microsoft does not require you to connect your OneDrive account to Windows.
Well, schools around here have been teaching coding since the early 90s and everyone around here knows how to code. They're not professional software developers by any means, but they know enough to do Excel Macros, html, js, etc. The low hanging stuff.
Music is another parallel. In the past, if you wanted to hear a new release, you paid for an LP, or cassette or CD, which you owned and which you could listen to until you wore it out.
Now you can buy an MP3 file, which you own until tech companies decide not to support MP3 software anymore. Or you can buy the opportunity to listen to that song from cloud storage, and you have zero control over its availability when the tech company unilaterally decides to eliminate it from its catalog. If you really want to continue to listen to what you've paid for, you can spend the time creating your own library by, gasp, burning some CD's, until the requisite software and hardware disappear courtesy of the tech companies.
And we just talking about tech here. More concerning, to me anyway, are mega-technocrats like Amazon leveraging their way into everything else from retail into tech into groceries into shipping into... This one company has tremendous control over what we read, listen to, watch, eat, wear, and wipe our butts with simply because they've eliminated most of their competition.
MP3 is an open format. You don't need to rely on tech companies.
With CDs, etc., you owned the media but you didn't own the songs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy
Wikipedia offers the easiest right to the point explanation for what the label is exactly. Rather than some obscure maze of sources for once. Envisioning the CEO's of tech companies to successfully obtain much stronger prominence into society. If this occurrence wasn't in the works already. Rather than tyrants of overly massive countries that are naive, ignorant, delusional, Technocracy might actually be better, relatively positive to enhance.
Wikipedia has demonstrated they cannot be trusted to accurately convey information on any sensitive subject. Rather than trust the web's unquestionable arbiter of truth, why don't we take a look at what the Technocrats, themselves, have to say about the definition? From The Technocrat - Vo. 3 - No. 4:
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Technocracy is the science of social engineering, the scientific operation of the entire social mechanism to produce and distribute goods and services to the entire population of this continent.
Hmm, that's interesting. Why doesn't wikipedia say anything about that?
Is there anything that happened in the last two years that had anything to do with social engineering, to distribute "goods" to the entire population?
Well, just keep in mind that a farmer with an old tractor, an old truck, land owned free and clear, and a gun, is the greatest fear of those who would shove us all into the same box.
As a society, I doubt it. Our society is so vast, it seems to have taken on a life of its own. Certainly, as individuals one can still unplug, or turn off the connections, as far as our personal habits go. It would be hard, and our lives would still be affected by the technology around them. For example, carrying a cell phone is more a necessity now that there are no public phones to use in case of an emergency. More and more businesses, and governments are forcing their customers to access them via the internet. Still, it is possible to walk away and come back as you choose. You just have to want less.
I think the average consumer won't care about losing digital/tech rights as long as they get a decent product.
And the nerds will always find ways to hack, mod and pirate stuff, which companies won't really be able to effectively enforce.
There's always free software as long as you accept it's current features. If you want all the bells and whistle then you have to pay someone to take care of it.
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