A priest and chaplain, Father John Jimenez serves in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, California for 23 years, and has taught in parochial and public schools for 30 years, writes of the effect of social media and smart phones on young people, and now software and AI technology in shaping thought and manipulating behavior, an issue that Frank Herbert foresaw in "Dune", and how shaping thought and mass behavior through scapegoating of chosen groups, and ginning up conflict is a means of social controlHere is his quote, "once men turned thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free, but that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
Franklin Foer adds in his book "World Without Mind"The Existential Threat of Big Tech", tech monopolists aspire to mold humanity into their desired image, that humanity is simply a subject that can be endlessly manipulated to a desired end."
Is not this the mass psychosis and censorship of information about the covid pandemic, manipulation of elections, and even ginning up regime change wars are really about?
