We just don't know. Maybe it will be bad, maybe it will be good, or both. It seems the surveillance is already more scary than it was in 1989 in the Eastern Europe - I know because I have lived through both - but now there is much more diversity of entertainment and access to the world.<p>Maybe we don't need that kind of terror any more to stabilize a country. With gentle nudges most people would fall in line and we'd never feel it. Even if we turn back to the totalitarian regime that was in Eastern Europe, we'll still have our games and shows with us. LOL.<p>The upside of machine intuition is that we could probably improve the world economy and reduce losses through incompetence and corruption from the government. The government has a chance to become much more efficient.