Comment by mlthoughts2018
5 years ago
What unfortunate, baseless fear mongering this is.
> “Social Cooling is a name for the long-term negative side effects of living in a reputation economy”
This has almost nothing to do with big data or data-driven features of consumer products. The same reputation surveillance has existed for many decades preceding measurement of internet and mobile device behavior.
Millennia. Part of the slogan "city air makes free" is that city people knew and cared much less about one's private life than villagers.