Who Controls the Future Controls the Present
If you can control the future through predictive policing– what the Department of Justice describes as “taking data from disparate sources, analyzing them and then using the results to anticipate, prevent and respond more effectively to future crime”
Then it’s a lot easier to control the present through social control– what The Harvard Gazette helpfully demystifies as “the public sector’s responsibility to create the social controls that promote the use of tech for good”
