The year is 2036, when dialed up to maximum space saving, the latest generation of smart phones now turn camera pictures to a textual description and later when you want to view them, re-generate them on the fly using a text2image model. Not that "saving space" really means something, the phones refuse to unlock if they don't have an internet connection and store all your data on multiple cloud servers anyway (one for each five eye country).

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BLanen 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It won't even have a camera. Could just infer from location, time, and orientation data.

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danillonunes 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The ultimate image compression algorithm: The txt

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inigyou 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's already 14 eyes, and it'll be 195 eyes by then

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xnickb 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

194. That one country will not be invited.

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bflesch 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's one Monarch, but many eyes. All information flows to the Crown.

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aljgz 9 hours ago | parent [-]

That one monarch is not a person or organization of people. It's an aggregation of all the loosely connected ones, competing on some things, coordinated on others, but you, the end user are never the beneficiary. That, my old school human friend, is the one commandment no one challenges. With all those players locked into a Nash equilibrium, no one can do anything about this, while all humans complain that things are not the way they should be.

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bflesch 7 hours ago | parent [-]

The constitutional monarchies respect each others' land ownership and colonies, but in terms of actual power the British Crown dwarfs everything, especially if one correctly recognizes the USA as their vassal state.

Outside of this there are few strongmen-led states of non-royal blood, of which China is the most important one.

And then there is Switzerland, which is part of the democratically-pacified buffer zone around Liechtenstein ;)

Let's hope the people at the top don't become too crazy.

	▲	pjc50 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		This is conspiracy theory territory. The USA is not a vassal state of the crown in any way at all. I just note that one of the few people to face fallout from the Epstein scandal is Prince Andrew, because he's not inside the US unaccountability protection field.