Wilson understood what I was saying. “I think that’s the fear of what we might see in the coming decades.” He stopped and corrected himself. “Or coming years. The increasing use of technology to control what you can say before you say it.” This was the crux of the issue to me. Could a mixture of prosperity and nationalism, authoritarianism and technology, control how human beings think? Could people be highly educated and connected to the wider world, and yet so conditioned by their education, aspiration for wealth, and fear of those with power that they wouldn’t want those things that Hong
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