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On 8/19/24 4:59 PM, rbowman wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 02:01:00 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> 
>> On 18 Aug 2024 03:45:42 GMT, rbowman wrote:
>>
>>> A contemporary article with a chilling vision of the future:
>>>
>>> "Eventually, large corporations could also be plugged into the system.
>>> Computers thousands of miles apart could talk taxes without any
>>> numbskull human interference. Banks could be hooked in, too, reporting
>>> who is getting interest payments. Real-estate and stock-market
>>> computers might tattle on who is making money. Machines in charity
>>> organizations could reveal amounts of donations. And hospital computers
>>> could report on individual medical costs."
>>
>> All routine nowadays. As is compliance with anti-money-laundering laws.
>> Which are governed by international agreements.
> 
> Yeah, the surveillance state is doing fine but the flying cars predicted
> in 1963 never happened and there are some guys in orbit that hope they can
> thumb a ride home someday.

   I sent a mail to SpaceX urging them to paint
   "Elon's Friendly Space Towing" with some hokey
   little graphic on the side of the eventual
   rescue capsule  :-)

   As for the flying cars - probably best that they
   never worked ... there'd be flaming junk falling
   from the skies almost constantly. People suck
   even at 2-D driving.

   (Looks like there's no such thing as anti-gravity
   alas ... it'd require unbending spacetime)

   As for the money-laundering stuff ... fear not ...
   all the players will find work-arounds almost
   overnight. Some loopholes will be PROVIDED by
   those who drafted the laws and those who write
   the spy software. They'll get their cut of the
   action in return  :-)