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information technologies have enabled governments around the world to build up an important data bank that now allows them to list those who think good or bad about their policies and take often coercive measures against individuals.
In addition it should be noted that if the technology allows the populace around the world to get information as quickly as possible, it is not without adverse effects; because false or real information disseminated on the Internet can manipulate the masses, whose capacity of judgment can be put to test, with the circulation of information that is sometimes disseminated under the prism of an ideology peculiar to entities that enjoy the greatest deterrent and persuasive power.
If some believe that technology can take mankind hostage by turning humans slaves of the machine instead of making it a tool of help, it is not absurd to think that it is to humans first to keep control over what serve them, restrict the freedom of material creation is nothing degrading, unless in the years to come some will believe that computers in the logic of artificial intelligence should also have rights that humans should respect, like animals rights.
Flashmag February 2018 www.flashmag.net
Ultimately, the freedom to create or invent at any time must be accompanied by morality. If now the technology allows to retrieve the facial recognition data of individuals from their profile pictures on social networks or on iPhone, it’s not a reason sufficient enough to use this scheme against humans, in extrajudicial executions by drones armed with explosive charges that are specially designed to hit dead individuals on the basis of their faciès traits.
Hubert Marlin E. Jr.
Journalist