Guardian Columnist Jack Schofield suggests China is making a Totalitarian Bet - that with enough software, enough sensors and enough State Security the people of china can be forever controlled and directed.

I think software is too complex, society and opportunity too complex for directed development to work - it must evolve, and like science needs openness and spread of ideas - a Democratic Bet.

One kind of society will be utopia and one ... not.

Everyone will want to live in utopia - and it's on us to code it, vote for it, nurture it.