"As algorithms come to know us so well, authoritarian governments could gain absolute control over their citizens, even more so than in Nazi Germany, and resistance to such regimes might be utterly impossible. Not only will the regime know exactly how you feel – it could make you feel whatever it wants. The dictator might not be able to provide citizens with healthcare or equality, but he could make them love him and hate his opponents. Democracy in its present form cannot survive the merger of biotech and infotech. Either democracy will successfully reinvent itself in a radically new form, or humans will come to live in ‘digital dictatorships’."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Imported from EN Wikiquote
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Yuval_Noah_Harari
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Yuval Noah Harari
299 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Yuval Noah Harari →
Related Quotes
"The Roman Empire... collected taxes from up to 100 million subjects. This... financed... 250,000 - 500,000 soldiers, …"
"[W]hen... complex societies began to appear.., a... new type of information became vital ― numbers."
"From the dawn of agriculture.., billions... armed with branches, swatters, shoes and poison sprays have waged... wars…"
"Yugoslavia in 1991 had more than enough... to feed all... and... disintegrated into a... bloodbath."
"This () was a collection of laws and judicial decisions whose aim was to present Hammurabi as a role model of a just …"
"According to the science of biology, people were not 'created'. They... evolved. And... not... to be 'equal'. ...Advo…"
"Christian success served as a model for... seventh century... Islam."
"The agricultural revolution is one of the most controversial events in history. Some... proclaim... it set humankind …"
"[F]ood surpluses... with... transportation technology... enabled... more people to cram together... into large villag…"
"[T]he first text of history contains no philosophical insight, no poetry, legends, laws, or... royal triumphs. They w…"