AI could forecast and influence our decision-making at an early stage, and sell these "intentions" in real-time

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7. As I noted above, from Kevin Kelley, there are so many good uses for tech

depending on the intention. And that's the key.

As I was growing up, it seemed mostly for war, and largely still is. I read Thoreau, Schumacher, Lewis Mumford, and also Whole Earth Catalog, "Computer Lib, Dream Machines". I built early microcomputers and programmed in assembler, Basic and C. I built in-house scientific data reduction and plotting apps with Illustrator output in Hypercard, which anyone could do. And far fancier stuff.

I supported university research computing and information systems for entire school districts. Set up one of the first web sites ever. Some fun. And more. A far cry from surveillance capitalism.

But the wolves get there first.

The famous story of Jeffrey Hammerbacher. "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads," he says. "That sucks."

Except, they were really at "my" university winning Nobel Prizes. But I get his point.

We just need BETTER PEOPLE!
And good luck with that!

https://www.fastcompany.com/3008436/why-data-god-jeffrey-hammerbacher-left-facebook-found-cloudera

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-04/google-and-facebook-s-idealistic-futures-are-built-on-ads

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-04-14/this-tech-bubble-is-different

mirrored: https://www.smh.com.au/business/why-this-tech-bubble-is-different-20110415-1dhbm.html