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rusk on April 23, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: EU votes to create gigantic biometrics database

Yes engineered but under what pretext. The assumption is always that its totalitarian but this is never stated. Could just as easily be steady state.

pmlnr on April 23, 2019 [–]

BNW is set 400 A.F, so we're into ~110 years now. I believe 1/4th of the book is hard reality. Give it 300 more years.

It doesn't need totalitarian gov. at all.

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