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So how can we get out of our own echo chambers, experience new countries and gain a fresh perspective on exactly how terrible or oppressed our lives actually are? How about a student exchange program, like the ones some experienced during school. We can substitute the exchange program with one of our own - a kind of a blackout, but rather than avoiding devices and not checking in on social media, we can simply update our behaviour..
As America moves towards another controversial election and everyone seems poised to oppose any result and point to "fake news" and "Russian accounts" that are convincing people to side one way or the other there remain a whole host of other services that are at risk of being overloaded, mislead or compromised all by using basic devices and very little technical knowledge.
It seems unlikely that the level of data being freely handed over without a choice to opt-out in Hangzhou would be tolerated in many Western communities, but could we be halfway down the road towards this future already?
