But “The Circle” film that debuts this week—about a privacy-flouting version of Google, Apple, and Facebook wrapped into one—makes you want to move to the woods. And is Silicon Valley prepared for the evils its technologies unleash? In some respects, it isn’t even fair to Silicon Valley. “But I am shocked that people don’t talk about it more.”That insatiable hunger for data is perhaps the most disturbing parallel between the fictional Circle and the real Silicon Valley. The goal here really is to index reality, with live data from your messages, photos, body, car, oven and lightbulbs.

Source: Wall Street Journal April 26, 2017 15:33 UTC