02/17/21
Computers, it was reported in 2020, quantum simulated a simple
chemical reaction.
John Pople and and Walter Kohn were awarded the Nobel for
contributions and developing the use of computers to understand
chemical structures with quantum mechanical concepts. (1998)
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To my knowledge little has been described about the impact of
the chemical enterprise.
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Sure, we can order chemicals using computers, manage
accounting and monitor reactions by computers, but in many
realms from politics to social physics to organizational behavior
to raw economics, surveillance capitalism is dominating
21st century life.
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It is commodification of personal data. The
extension to chemistry where data is compiled and analyzed
with computers is only a matter of time to find applications.
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February 19th, 2021 at 7:38 am
Examples:
stealing corporate secrets
espionage
scooping emerging concepts
February 21st, 2021 at 11:19 am
Paragraph from Zuboff, “…Surveillance Capitalism…”
“The word “search” has meant a daring existential journey,
not a ‘finger tap’ to already existing answers; that a “friend”
is an embodied mystery that can be forged only face-to-face
and heart-to-heart; and that recognition is the glimmer of
homecoming we experience in our beloved’s facial recognition.
It is not ok to have our best instincts for connection, empathy,
and information exploited by draconian ‘quid pro quo’ that
holds these goods hostage to the pervasive strip search of
our lives.
[My insertion to make clear.]
It is not ok to have every move, utterance, emotion, and
desire to be catalogued, manipulated and then used
surreptitiously to herd us through the future tense for the
sake of someone else’s profits.”