How to catch a tiger by the tail, New Forward
Once upon a time, the world was on the threshold of the era of the industrial revolution, and Blake, in his poem The Tyger, looked to the future with horror and interest. Today, many people are beginning to be skeptical of technooptimism. Of course, the situation with election fraud during electronic voting and the introduction of the QR codes has added fuel to the fire. This measure is, of course, reasonable and, in general, not new, but it is very doubtful what its implementation will lead to. People increasingly distrust the authorities. And if the attitude towards CCTV cameras is generally tolerable, the QR codes are perceived something like this: now they are being introduced under the pretext of fighting infection, and after a while they will be probably used to ensure that we are constantly monitored in all areas of our
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