Comment by GJim
> Europe could enforce corporate entities to give the right to be heard to people
Maybe not quite what you meant....
.... but the GDPR gives users the right not to be subjected to decisions based entirely on automated processing (including AI).
Thus, you have the right to have a human (an actual person!) consider your bank loan application, parking fine, passport application, membership cancellation etc, rather than just have an automatic system say "computer says no" with no right of appeal.
This is an important law which restricts potential tyranny (and I use that word with its full meaning) caused by allowing governments and corporations to limit public's engagement with wider business and society though the use of a restrictive IT practice.
Yes, but it's a half-baked step.
Probably it's time to rethink what a nation means.
At least I got a vision, citizenship is like being a member of an association.
Currently, citizenship is very restricted, but I hope for a more open world, where citizenship is a lot more fluent than today. Of course many protections are neccessary which are implicit in citizenship. That's why I wrote about human rights and corporate organisations. I imagine an automatic membership bound to residency and what is citizenship today turns into membership to some cultural association.
And customers become members of their corporate entity and thus gain many rights we don't have today. That's why I said, corporate entities turn into countries.
Perhaps in about a hundred years if our civilization is still thriving at least somewhat?