Great Cyber-Citizen Exposition. Politically Naive.
Was tempted to insert a GIF of a Jeff Bezos laughing jag, but issues you raise are too important. Everything, and do mean everything, you say about cyber-issues and need for informed citizenry here is spot on (though might have added global AI/AGI arms-race).
Politically there are multiple problems with your request (you can uncross your fingers).
- Even if these question were asked, the response would be a classic, politically correct, two-handed answer (i.e., on the one hand and on the other….).
- Campaigns are about
- lesser of two personalities and their constructed image
- change or more of the same
- slogans and vague promises not accountable substantive policies
- identity/group politics (i.e., plurality of electoral college)
3. While these should be a non-partisan/bi-partisan issues, they are not
4. Media is about advertising, sensationalism and if it bleeds it leads
Paraphrasing your self-proclaimed concern:
In this political system, nobody thinks. We expected to banish incompetence, but actually banished thought and accountability.
Suffice it to say, you have probably grossly underestimated the magnitude of the cyber-problem going forward and certainly underestimated the danger posed by our antiquated political system with respect to these issues.
As I have said elsewhere,
Given how disturbingly dysfunctional our existing 18th century electoral and political systems are now, why does anyone assume they will somehow become better? Will they work better 20 years from now in 2036? How about in 2050 or 2070? If they are not going to work better, when do we start to design a new political system? Now or when things become still more dysfunctional and dangerous to our well-being?
On my Medium publication, A Passion to Evolve, there are a number of articles of mine you might find interesting. For example, Doc Says — Our Emotions, Institutions and Technological Capabilities Are Mismatched, What Truthiness and Post-Fact Era Means, and or Why You Should Fear Artificial Intelligence-AI
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