Privacy & Technology - Technology is only recently articulating the moral dimension of privacy, emphasizing that a human life should not be reduced to an audit trail [1] - Arguments against privacy often stem from a logic of extraction, struggling to envision trust without total visibility or safety without control [1] - Surveillance prevailed due to convenience, quiet imposition, efficient execution, and normalization, not because it was inherently right [2] - A zero-sum mindset reveals how deeply surveillance has colonized the imagination, hindering the conception of a world without constant oversight [2] - The current trajectory normalizes total visibility into personal financial life, rewards extraction, and conditions acceptance of control and surveillance as the price of using decentralized systems [3] Decentralized Systems & Cypherpunk Renaissance - The cypherpunk renaissance has already begun, signaling a shift towards resisting the normalization of total visibility and control [3] - The industry is interrupting a trajectory that equates safety with control and total visibility [2]
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