What about the dark side of technology?

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I don't think this will ever happen.

I consider the dark side to be the embedded scripts that corporations, such as google or facebook especially, have on virtually every web page. Or how about the locational information few people think anything of sharing from there smartphone. Or technology such as google glass for instance. An ever more encompassing collection of information is combining with a virtually limitless storage of such information. Quantum computing development may render all encryption useless. Now develope better automated crime detection software with access to darn near omnipotent knowledge. Big brother just got much more effective than anything dreamed of in dystopian novels. I could even see the eventual automation of psychology evaluations that flags certain people as needing to come in for an examination and adjustment of meds aimed at creating a more productive and safer society. Even if computers never develope independent ai they will allow a relatively small number of experts to focus on the results of incomprehensibly immense evaluations of nearly everyone and everything. These experts in turn will either be on the payroll of corporations or lobbied by them. Of course much of this is speculation, but I don't see it being that unlikely considering current trends.