people like u and me assume mass surveillance is modern digital invention. But when you look at historical paper trail basic infrastructure was already running over a century ago.
If you ask me i say real shift happen when factory owners started using mechanical time clocks to track human movement down to the exact minute. It was like early hardware for treating people like measurable data point
During the first world war government built massive physical bureaus that opened and logged millions of private letters. By the time computer databases showed up society had already been conditioned to accept being cataloged.
[OP] Effective-Dish-1334 | 17 hours ago
people like u and me assume mass surveillance is modern digital invention. But when you look at historical paper trail basic infrastructure was already running over a century ago.
If you ask me i say real shift happen when factory owners started using mechanical time clocks to track human movement down to the exact minute. It was like early hardware for treating people like measurable data point
During the first world war government built massive physical bureaus that opened and logged millions of private letters. By the time computer databases showed up society had already been conditioned to accept being cataloged.