Interesting view ...
Who needs democracy when you have data?
Here’s how China rules using data, AI, and internet surveillance.
by Christina Larson in Technology Review
"... In 1955, science fiction writer Isaac Asimov published a short story about an experiment in “electronic democracy,” in which a single citizen, selected to represent an entire population, responded to questions generated by a computer named Multivac. The machine took this data and calculated the results of an election that therefore never needed to happen. Asimov’s story was set in Bloomington, Indiana, but today an approximation of Multivac is being built in China. ... "
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