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The future is what we make it to be. All technology does not work inside a vacuum, it works in the society and society is made up by contracts, most importantly

The future is what we make it to be. All technology does not work inside a vacuum, it works in the society and society is made up by contracts, most importantly it is made up by laws and the laws are made, at least in democracy by elected representatives.

curried_haskell 10y ago
The future is what we, as a whole, collectively, 7 billion people, make it to be. Unfortunately I think the writing is already on the wall. We've moving towards a world where everyone will be recording everything all the time. Soon my glasses will be recording everything I see all the time and you won't even know it. The advantages of being able to replay things you saw, record conversations, record accidents and incidents with police, record controversial things at work, are all too great. People are already doing this with dashcams in their cars. We're moving into a world where privacy will simply become impossible.
- eveningcoffee 10y ago
  Personally I do not think that the recording is a problem by itself. Problem is with who this recording is shared.
  - calgoo 10y ago
    Exactly, I would love to have real valid AR glasses where we can add metadata to everyday life. If it could be built without the posiblity to take a photo it would be better, but you would loose half of the functions and people would not use it, cause whats the use of a camera if you cant take photos or video. Also with the IoT stuff coming online, it looks more and more like these AR devices wont matter in regards to private as everything will be recording everything anyway.
    - eveningcoffee 10y ago
      The only place these IoT things should be is on the shelves if companies are stupid enough to produce them. :( I try to explain it always if I have change. Our houses should not leak information. This is very dangerous for the society as a whole.
astazangasta 10y ago
I was with you until "society is made up by contracts", and you lost me entirely with laws. Most of society exists outside the ambit of either law or contract.
- calgoo 10y ago
  Well, we do have a lot of social contracts. Thats basically how we function as a society. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_contract https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_contract
  - eveningcoffee 10y ago
    Indeed, as society we can make certain behaviour unlawful regardless of technical possibilities. We can imprison and isolate people from the society who act against such laws. We just have to make our minds clear what these laws should be. My only concern is that non state level organized actors can get large advantage over the society using these laws.

curried_haskell 10y ago

The future is what we, as a whole, collectively, 7 billion people, make it to be. Unfortunately I think the writing is already on the wall. We've moving towards a world where everyone will be recording everything all the time. Soon my glasses will be recording everything I see all the time and you won't even know it. The advantages of being able to replay things you saw, record conversations, record accidents and incidents with police, record controversial things at work, are all too great. People are already doing this with dashcams in their cars. We're moving into a world where privacy will simply become impossible.

eveningcoffee 10y ago
Personally I do not think that the recording is a problem by itself. Problem is with who this recording is shared.
- calgoo 10y ago
  Exactly, I would love to have real valid AR glasses where we can add metadata to everyday life. If it could be built without the posiblity to take a photo it would be better, but you would loose half of the functions and people would not use it, cause whats the use of a camera if you cant take photos or video. Also with the IoT stuff coming online, it looks more and more like these AR devices wont matter in regards to private as everything will be recording everything anyway.
  - eveningcoffee 10y ago
    The only place these IoT things should be is on the shelves if companies are stupid enough to produce them. :( I try to explain it always if I have change. Our houses should not leak information. This is very dangerous for the society as a whole.

astazangasta 10y ago

I was with you until "society is made up by contracts", and you lost me entirely with laws. Most of society exists outside the ambit of either law or contract.

calgoo 10y ago
Well, we do have a lot of social contracts. Thats basically how we function as a society. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_contract https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_contract
- eveningcoffee 10y ago
  Indeed, as society we can make certain behaviour unlawful regardless of technical possibilities. We can imprison and isolate people from the society who act against such laws. We just have to make our minds clear what these laws should be. My only concern is that non state level organized actors can get large advantage over the society using these laws.