Comment by AstroBen
2 days ago
Accessible to anyone, superhuman levels of deductive reasoning to pick out your location from super minor details in an innocent photo? That could certainly be dystopian
2 days ago
Accessible to anyone, superhuman levels of deductive reasoning to pick out your location from super minor details in an innocent photo? That could certainly be dystopian
Anyone can post to r/geogussr. Has that been dystopian all this time and I never noticed?
Honestly, yes it's a bit dystopian that a forum online exists where anyone can post a photo and experts from all around the world will help them figure out the exact location of that photo.
Lots of things that exist in our world today are mildly dystopian.
I guess that's the heart of the disagreement -- to me "mildly dystopian" is a very funny phrase. Dystopia / Utopia are extremes; perfect and perfectly bad.
If we're calling potentially abusable things "dystopian" then, ok, sure. But then you have to let me call unscented soap "utopian", since it is at least mildly utopian.
It certainly could be, but not all technological advancement is necessarily dystopian. You say, currently everyone now has access to this, while before it was only available to nation states who could hire teams of skilled analyst s. I mean, I agree it's scary that now a stalker could track a victim, but cars and cameras probably help as well. So, I think it's fair to challenge "dystopian", someone will use it for non-nefarious purposes.