Thank you, no. Surveillance capitalism has gone far enough, it's already well across the line of acceptable. There's so much derision in the urbanist space for the conspiracy theory that 15-minute cities are a totalitarian surveilance dystopia. Maybe, as an idea, we should stop proposing neat new concepts that move those theories closer to reality.
It's definitely not for everybody, and it should never be forced. But there are tons of people willing to give up their data for entertainment. They might be okay with less obtrusive data collection for something valuable like transportation.
Thank you, no. Surveillance capitalism has gone far enough, it's already well across the line of acceptable. There's so much derision in the urbanist space for the conspiracy theory that 15-minute cities are a totalitarian surveilance dystopia. Maybe, as an idea, we should stop proposing neat new concepts that move those theories closer to reality.
It's definitely not for everybody, and it should never be forced. But there are tons of people willing to give up their data for entertainment. They might be okay with less obtrusive data collection for something valuable like transportation.