🔮 Quantum computing; face recognition & surveillance; firms, ethics & policy; the great restructuring; helium, populism & positive people ++ #174

Dept of near future

📸  “With millions of cameras and billions of lines of code, China is building a high-tech authoritarian future,” argues Paul Mozur. Fascinating detail of the scale of China’s watch list (20-30m people), how it is built by private firms and how it might be used by the state to manage increasing social disruption. (See also: profile of…