I resonate with your concerns, but I believe the best way to secure a human-centric future is fully diving in to technology and our constant surveillance realities. My goal is to empower people to collect their own data to help them objectively understand the impact technology has on themselves: https://hindsight.life/
Recently, I created hindsight, an open source android app that takes a screenshot every 2 seconds and stores it locally. It has functionality to upload the screenshots to a personal server and some basic scripts to view and search the text within the images. I use rem to do the equivalent on my Mac.
I think this data opens up a lot of cool opportunities, especially in personal A.I. and automated self quantification! Some ideas that come to mind:
1) Gamifying screen time reduction
2) A fake news detector that uses current information to find false information you’ve seen in the past
3) Creating an A.I. twitter feed summarization image
4) A mental health tracker
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