With IT, humanity has practically created an electronic god much like the deities it previously invented, as I argued in a recent column on how companies stalk employees’ social media accounts.
This god can harvest a huge amount of information from big data on which to judge us, from our friendship choices and purchasing preferences to our political views and drinking habits.
China may be on the cusp of putting into operation mandatory institutionalised technology with godlike ambitions, as Rachel Botsman, a visiting academic to Oxford Saïd Business School, says in her book Who Can You Trust?
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