Roindarb

My awakening as to how technology can be used to control people was learning about the events leading up to the Referendum on the UK leaving the EU (Brexit). This subject was really topical when I was studying for my GCSEs and A-levels, so I would casually watch videos and read on this topic in my free time. What I learned was that both sides of the campaign used personal data harvested from social media platforms to create targeted advertisements based on whatever topics that user felt strongly about. One of the campaigns used a significant amount of dissinformation in their advertisements and targeted those who were passionate but not necessarily politically informed. This was facilitated by those terms of service agreements that are formatted deliberatley to by awful to read, in order to prevent us from understanding what's happening. It's incredibley frightening how private organisations can purchase harvested data to manipulate narratives on any topic they wish to further their goals, whilst most people are ignorant of how prevalent or effective said methods really are.

'ello. I've been thinking about this topic as well for a while, but my irl friends understandably find depressing, whilst I find it morbidly fascinating. In History we learn about the rise and fall of many great civilisations. No matter how massive, powerful or enlightened, every civilisation in history rises, peaks, then eventually collapses. The Mesopotamians, Greeks, Egyptians, Romans, Persians, Ottomans (just off the top of my head) all eventually fell and our modern civilisations will certainly do the same. The bigger they were, the harder they fell and our current civilisation is more advanced than any other in recorded history, thus the fall will be catastrophic. So Slashbolt, is there really anything that can realisticly be done to avoid the fate of every known Civilisation? I'd love to hear what your thoughts.