I look things up here and there. I use DuckDuckGo mainly. It doesn’t track my every move, I don’t think, and it isn’t evil.
And it occurs to me that all the old paper records are going the way of the dodo bird. Nobody has encyclopedia’s any more, I suspect. Why? It’s all a click or two away. Even on your PHONE. Your fucking phone. Who saw that coming?
But if everything is in a place where it can be amended easily, can it not be disappeared easily? Alex Jones has been going on about AI bots which learn our personalities and generate fake news to generate political tides, and which even imitate us, for a variety of purposes.
Such bots clearly are possible. How much and if they will be deployed remains to be seen. We may never know, really.
But history can be played with, now, too, with much less trouble than in yesteryear. Many of us still have many books, much history. But most people don’t, and the trend is towards everything being digital, and easily mutable.
Everything depends, ultimately, on the wisdom and humanity of the people who get control of power and knowledge. Things are trending badly in that regard. I sure as fuck don’t trust Google, Facebook, Microsoft, or Apple. The people running them are bad people. It’s likely safe to say most of them are atheists. Most atheists will tell it doesn’t matter, but in my view, it is very hard to create coherent and shareable morality which will remain coherent in the long run as an atheist. And in any event, they are not even TRYING. Their morality consists in throwing gold coins from their chariots to the plebeians, while on their way from one palace to another.