Posted on 10/30/2017 11:32:43 AM PDT by RightGeek
The Chinese government plans to launch its Social Credit System in 2020. The aim? To judge the trustworthiness – or otherwise – of its 1.3 billion residents
In June 14, 2014, the State Council of China published an ominous-sounding document called "Planning Outline for the Construction of a Social Credit System". In the way of Chinese policy documents, it was a lengthy and rather dry affair, but it contained a radical idea. What if there was a national trust score that rated the kind of citizen you were?
Imagine a world where many of your daily activities were constantly monitored and evaluated: what you buy at the shops and online; where you are at any given time; who your friends are and how you interact with them; how many hours you spend watching content or playing video games; and what bills and taxes you pay (or not). It's not hard to picture, because most of that already happens, thanks to all those data-collecting behemoths like Google, Facebook and Instagram or health-tracking apps such as Fitbit. But now imagine a system where all these behaviours are rated as either positive or negative and distilled into a single number, according to rules set by the government. That would create your Citizen Score and it would tell everyone whether or not you were trustworthy. Plus, your rating would be publicly ranked against that of the entire population and used to determine your eligibility for a mortgage or a job, where your children can go to school - or even just your chances of getting a date.
A futuristic vision of Big Brother out of control? No, it's already getting underway in China, where the government is developing the Social Credit System (SCS) to rate the trustworthiness of its 1.3 billion citizens.
(Excerpt) Read more at wired.co.uk ...
Coming soon to a world government near you.
China getting ready for the death camps again. Google and Apple will continue helping them set it up.
How many people here would believe that our permanent state would not use China’s working system as a model for its own..?
deep down you know that’s true.
They’re going to do this HERE.
So they watched that episode of Black Mirror too.
Now that Yogi Bear and the 6 Boo-Boos are in charge Look Out
Mr. Chou, your rating is in the lower 20th percentile in the Social Credit System therefore you cannot utilize healthcare services to cure you of your fatal disease.
Next!
Well, everyone on FR would be banned from all perks and shunned by the Clinton Party.
Yeah, and “Orville” had one too. I don’t remember this theme from classic sci-fi, curiously.
Heck, the only difference from what the internet does here is the publicness.
It stems from one of the side effects of the internet age that I don’t think anybody saw coming. Everybody comprehended information running around the world fast, nobody realized opinions, especially low impact opinions (the Like button) being able to accumulate and replicate and matter.
I shouldn’t be surprised as SF writers missed many things.
A short (very!) story I do remember...
“Dwan Ev ceremoniously soldered the final connection with gold. The eyes of a dozen television cameras watched him and the subether bore throughout the universe a dozen pictures of what he was doing.
He straightened and nodded to Dwar Reyn, then moved to a position beside the switch that would complete the contact when he threw it. The switch that would connect, all at once, all of the monster computing machines of all the populated planets in the universe — ninety-six billion planets — into the supercircuit that would connect them all into one supercalculator, one cybernetics machine that would combine all the knowledge of all the galaxies.
Dwar Reyn spoke briefly to the watching and listening trillions. Then after a moment’s silence he said, “Now, Dwar Ev.”
Dwar Ev threw the switch. There was a mighty hum, the surge of power from ninety-six billion planets. Lights flashed and quieted along the miles-long panel.
Dwar Ev stepped back and drew a deep breath. “The honor of asking the first question is yours, Dwar Reyn.”
“Thank you,” said Dwar Reyn. “It shall be a question which no single cybernetics machine has been able to answer.”
He turned to face the machine. “Is there a God?”
The mighty voice answered without hesitation, without the clicking of a single relay.
“Yes, now there is a God.”
Sudden fear flashed on the face of Dwar Ev. He leaped to grab the switch.
A bolt of lightning from the cloudless sky struck him down and fused the switch shut.
(Fredric Brown, “Answer”)
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