by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
So, how could we possibly prove that our phones are, in some way, reading our minds. I think the first step would be to get someone at, say, Wired, to do some basic scientific method stuff with their phone.
They get someone else to use Tik-Tok for a few minutes (or whatever) then see if the they begin to get pushed content that is different from what was otherwise pushed to the phone.
If you could prove that the only variable was the mind of the person using the phone, then, well, you got a story.
But I have a feeling even that wouldn’t be enough. We’d have to have some sort of insider expose it all — with proof. Then, maybe, what I think is pretty obvious — that Big Tech is hiding their ability to read or minds — would come to the public’s attention.
It wouldn’t be THAT big a deal, but for the national security part of it all. If the Chinese government is rummaging through the minds of America’s youth via their phones, it would make sense that the US GOVERNMENT one day (especially under an autocratic regime) might use Big Tech’s ability to read our minds as a gateway to pretty much total control over the populace.
Yet, I know this sounds very bonkers. And I’m probably wrong. And yet…
