I don’t think the blank cheque handed to these emergent technologies is a function of the times in which they emerged. Rather it’s the fact that technology advances much faster than the wheels of government turn; it’s nearly inevitable that new technologies will be largely unregulated until government can catch up.

Truly. This global push towards mass surveillance is extremely alarming.

The Black Mirror writers begin furiously scribbling in their notebooks

These AI searches are really what I wanted AskJeeves to be way back in the day.