Cory Doctorow

If you've got a really terrible idea that involves technology that's incredibly harmful to the people it's imposed on, you can't start with me.

I'm a mouthy, white, middle-class guy with a megaphone.

And when I get angry, other people find out about it.

You have to find people without social power.

And

And you grind down the rough edges on their bodies.

You start with prisoners.

You start with people in mental asylums.

You start with refugees.

And then you work your way up to kids and then high school kids, blue-collar workers and pink-collar workers and then white-collar workers.

And it starts with, like, the only people who eat dinner under a CCTV are in Supermax.

And 20 years later, it's like, no, you were just dumb enough to buy a home camera from, like, Apple or Google or God help us all, Facebook.

Right.

So that is the shitty technology adoption curve.

And if you want to know what the future of workers is, you look at the least privileged workers at the bottom, and then you see that technology working its way up.

You look at drivers for Amazon.

They have all these sensors pointed at their faces, sensors studded around the van.

They're not given a long enough break even to deal with things like period hygiene issues.

And so women who drive for Amazon who go into the back of the van to deal with their periods discover that that's all on camera because that's all being recorded.

All of this stuff is subject to both manual and automated analytics.