"There's a really long history of the agenics of this obsession with productivity," he says. "The desire and drive to reduce humans to things lesser than they are so that they're easier to categorize, control, profit from shape" The data centric models can be used by oil companies, militaries, states and governments, according to Stanford University professor David Weinberger.
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