Recoding the Citizen-State Relationship: Impact of Computational Technology on State Power
The state has always been in the business of knowing its citizens; computation just made it embarrassingly good at the job. Spanning political philosophy, public policy, and science fiction, this thesis maps how computational technology is rewiring the citizen-state relationship — from smart city surveillance to algorithmic bureaucracy to futures that feel uncomfortably near. The conclusion: the state is more involved in your life than ever, and how you feel about that is, mercifully, still up to you.