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Darknet
'You're not even a fully formed person yet. Your face is still changing and your bones are still growing but already there's a detailed map of your personality out there and companies you've never heard of are getting rich off it.' Welcome to Octopus Inc., the internet giant that allows users to exchange personal data for currency. But not everyone is prepared to sacrifice their privacy for an easier life. A teenager subverts the system in an attempt to save her mother. A visionary tech exec takes shortcuts to get ahead. And a cybercriminal makes a choice between two kinds of freedom. Darknet navigates through the world of data commodification and the uncharted deep web, shining a light on the things we choose to share online and the places we can hide. It was commissioned and produced by Potential Difference and premiered at Southwark Playhouse, London, in 2016.
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122 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 14, 2016
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February 14, 2021
3.5 stars
Certainly a topic that interests me. Companies really do hold a scary amount of data on each of us. There are both data cynics, rationing their data, and the less charmingly named data whores, spreading it around. It is disturbing to consider just how much information a company builds up on us. Their complex algorithms, in many cases, understand our behaviour better than we do ourselves, free of many of the cognitive biases and rationalisations we tell ourselves.
It was interesting to see Big Tech and Hackdolz pitted against one another, as well as the personal elements of the play. Structurally, interesting. However, the dialogue is nothing special and the topic, though trendy and relevant, isn't necessarily that dramatic. If anything big data is kind of built on an abstraction that loses something in its complexity.
Though this play does explore some of the interesting moral issues of the subject, it's characters aren't particularly compelling. I would say that it straddles theatre and infotainment.
Certainly a topic that interests me. Companies really do hold a scary amount of data on each of us. There are both data cynics, rationing their data, and the less charmingly named data whores, spreading it around. It is disturbing to consider just how much information a company builds up on us. Their complex algorithms, in many cases, understand our behaviour better than we do ourselves, free of many of the cognitive biases and rationalisations we tell ourselves.
It was interesting to see Big Tech and Hackdolz pitted against one another, as well as the personal elements of the play. Structurally, interesting. However, the dialogue is nothing special and the topic, though trendy and relevant, isn't necessarily that dramatic. If anything big data is kind of built on an abstraction that loses something in its complexity.
Though this play does explore some of the interesting moral issues of the subject, it's characters aren't particularly compelling. I would say that it straddles theatre and infotainment.
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