Thomas Drake
speaker
874 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 11 Sep
Thomas Drake’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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What does it mean to relate to one another?
What does it mean to live?
What does it mean to be in a relationship with others, both close, intimate, as well as extended family and friends, and your social connections?
What does that mean?
You increasingly are seeing a fragmented society, and I think psychologically that causes its own long-term effects on sort of the health and well-being of society at large.
And then you have those with massive amounts of money, just staggering amounts, who don't really care about the general welfare of anybody else, only about themselves, and are increasingly isolating even themselves from society because they can.
And so I do... I mean, this is where...
And then if you look like you're out of line for any reason, this is what some call algorithmic discrimination that's occurring, predictive surveillance.
This is where you get back to the minority report.
This becomes, in essence, you increasingly create a pre-crime society.
Everybody can commit a crime.
And who's going to define it, right?
Whoever's in power.
And now it's like rule of law.
It's not rule of law anymore.
It's just rule.
And I get to decide what the rules are and I can make them up and change them on the fly.
Because I'm in power.
That means you effectively become excommunicated from society.
And then you're living on the margins.
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