pond nugget on Nostr: The surveillance tech is terrifying. As you mention, we have examples of this from ...

The surveillance tech is terrifying. As you mention, we have examples of this from the Holocaust. A major technological contributor was the tabulating machines made by IBM to conduct the census at an unprecedented level of efficiency and scale. They were able to identify Jews and other ethnic groups and even comb through ancestry for the entire country's population. It is said that each concentration camp had a department with these devices which they used to keep tabs on inmates There's a great book on this called "IBM and the Holocaust".