the president of microsoft, brad smith wrote an interesting book, title, tools, and weapons. in this book, he worries out loud that the technology designed to help society's improve to increase productivity and achieve new height, can also be used to harm us. facial recognition software can make life a lot easier, but can also be used to spy on and essentially trap citizens. he and others point to how china attracted enforces social controls on its population, online and offline. well, what can stop this, this dopey and future? of course, science will keep pushing us forward and improving our health in our lives, in every way imaginable. but the intersection of science and security is producing some very scary things. the only partial solution i can think of is exposing this, exposing the problems, talking about them until we all work together and establish guardrail, they prevent tech from hurting you and hurting me. and that's the bottom line. ah, in the year 1271 a day, a young italian merchant set out on an extraordinary journey. having travelled the furthest reaches of t

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