Thinking about the Morpheus conversation from Deus Ex.

“Human beings feel pleasure when they are watched. I have recorded their smiles as I tell them who they are.”

(….)

“The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms.”

This game was released in fucking 2000, btw.

“The human organism always worships. First it was the gods, then it was fame (the observation and judgment of others), next it will be the self-aware systems you have built to realize truly omnipresent observation and judgment.”

And so on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b-bijO3uEw

The human organism always worships. First it was the gods, then it was fame (the observation and judgment of others), next it will be the self-aware systems you have built to realize truly omnipresent observation and judgment.