that tells us where goods and services are needed by society by monitoring and prioritizing requests in real time, as well as monitoring “purchase” data (having people swipe an ID card and enter an ID when “shopping” online and so on).  Like all that data gathered and put to use for good rather than evil… 

Like seriously, imagine an economy run based on wants and needs, prioritized by data gathered about human happiness and life expectancy and shit, the thing tells us when we need more workers in whatever sectors because of demand, predicts what products people want so you don’t end up with shortages historically associated with planned economies.

Like I believe capitalism is an IT problem and also like imagine all those algorithms used to show you ads, used to curate your netflix and your facebook and everything used to benefit humanity rather than to shill crap?

I mean we have the ability to gather and interpret immense IMMENSE amounts of data, can you imagine what we could do with a records of everyone’s consumption of products and services?  Of everyone’s requests?  

Imagine the society we could build with all that data used for good, maximizing human happiness would be so easily within our grasp.