Funny, I was planning to post this elsewhere, but it is so related to your post that I’ll reply here… (though not directly on ‘platform mediated workplaces’… an interesting topic and curious to read more about it):
In the Guardian this morning I read about people having either the luxury or opportunity to completely block out the news media in There are good reasons for ignoring the news and found some interesting links in the comments section pointing to an earlier article My dad predicted Trump in 1985 – it’s not Orwell, he warned, it’s Brave New World that highlights this book by Neil Postman:
And this comparison in pictures between Orwellian and Huxlean dystopian futures:
I have posted some other article references earlier, here, here and here and these lead me to think that the dystopian regimes of the future will use a smart combination of both Orwell and Huxley.
At the leadership level you will have management platforms where you can easily define censorship rules (Newspeak) and what is considered normal (e.g. ‘A normal person works 80 hrs a week’, ‘A normal person does not question the government in any way’, etc.). These rules are then fed to the surveillance apparatus where AI’s and big data analysis take over. This is the orwellian part.
Now Huxley takes over and the gamified all-pervasive social credit system makes everyone willingly comply to these rules, or risk losing life’s virtues and ultimately getting ostracized by/from society altogether.
Brr… thinking of this makes me want to forgo the news and blissfully leave an ignorant lifestyle 