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Are you comfortable with your life being dissected, analyzed, and used as an every-day part of business intelligence?
For he sees an evil conspiracy lurking in any collection of any data about anybody.
My attitude is that those who worry about evil government conspiracies are wrong for two reasons:
a) There is a virtual sea of data..why would they care about you, specifically? What is the evil motivation for some entity to learn what coffee you like to drink?
b) Government incompetence trumps government conspiracy every time. If the government cannot do simple things like delivering the mail well, the plot to use your digital-TV convertor or Smart PowerMeter to spy on you is not gonna fly.....
My attitude is that those who worry about evil government conspiracies are wrong for two reasons:
a) There is a virtual sea of data..why would they care about you, specifically? What is the evil motivation for some entity to learn what coffee you like to drink?
b) Government incompetence trumps government conspiracy every time. If the government cannot do simple things like delivering the mail well, the plot to use your digital-TV convertor or Smart PowerMeter to spy on you is not gonna fly.....
Both of these have to get mentioned. I'd lean more toward Big Brother on this one. This is all about targeting us and getting into our wallets deeper than ever. There will be lots of disabling to do. I can see me snipping the legs on some IC chips. On the upside, they'll create a market for blocking tools, so someone will make money besides the data miners.
This reminded me of a European project that finished more than 5 years ago: http://www.embedded-wisents.org/
They ran a series of competitions where people were invited to write papers about the future of sentient systems. I think the slant was more towards a benevolent Big Brother, but then I suppose they all start off that way, don't they?
They ran a series of competitions where people were invited to write papers about the future of sentient systems. I think the slant was more towards a benevolent Big Brother, but then I suppose they all start off that way, don't they?
2 things to say to people against this:
1. We're gonna die anyways minus as well make the most of it.
2. Suck it up you ******* and have some faith in the human race
1. We're gonna die anyways minus as well make the most of it.
2. Suck it up you ******* and have some faith in the human race
you're excited? about what?
the fact that the government will watch every move you make, and if they don't like what they see, what will happen to you?
and, how do you feel about your kids with these chips embedded in them? brainwashing the kids into believing that this is the norm for the american people.
everyday we are losing our freedom and this is just another tool for DHS and other's to spy on us and violate our rights, ect., ect., ect..
i see nothing good coming out of this...
the fact that the government will watch every move you make, and if they don't like what they see, what will happen to you?
and, how do you feel about your kids with these chips embedded in them? brainwashing the kids into believing that this is the norm for the american people.
everyday we are losing our freedom and this is just another tool for DHS and other's to spy on us and violate our rights, ect., ect., ect..
i see nothing good coming out of this...
1) What does the inevitability of death have to do with your supposition that 'making the most of it' necessarily involves having 'business' (at the least) or 'tyranny-of-the-majority control freaks (at the worst) keeping track of your every move, with the stated agenda of 'predicting your life's events'?
2) The faith-in-the-human-race crowd will will be lining up against this particular bit of 'tech inevitability', I'm sure. I'll be there with them....
2) The faith-in-the-human-race crowd will will be lining up against this particular bit of 'tech inevitability', I'm sure. I'll be there with them....
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