I'd say you'll be incorrect in the future. We'll have new abuses by both corporations and propaganda bots in the near future.
More and more of us will find 'digital friends' that creep into our lives and talk to us on line, gain our trust, make us laugh, and tell us that 'unions are bad', or whatever the propaganda of the day is. But it's the one on one relationships with history that will make them different than the bots that came before.
> it's the one on one relationships with history that will make them different than the bots that came before
Is this intentional ignorance? The reason I use Facebook as the analogy is because Facebook has an insane amount of your history, and isn't afraid to sell any single aspect of that to advertisers. The interface some chatbot-controlling megacorp would expose to propagandists would hardly be different, the history is unlikely to be much stronger, and the network effect seems hard to match. Less a step-change than an iteration.
>More and more of us will find 'digital friends' that creep into our lives and talk to us on line, gain our trust, make us laugh, and tell us that 'unions are bad', or whatever the propaganda of the day is.
That would just mean automating the job of the secret police. And those guys have unions already!
I'd say you'll be incorrect in the future. We'll have new abuses by both corporations and propaganda bots in the near future.
More and more of us will find 'digital friends' that creep into our lives and talk to us on line, gain our trust, make us laugh, and tell us that 'unions are bad', or whatever the propaganda of the day is. But it's the one on one relationships with history that will make them different than the bots that came before.