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I wonder where we're supposed to go from here. After 9/11 I worried about having something as convenient as Google Maps. Now we have more real-time surveillan

I wonder where we're supposed to go from here. After 9/11 I worried about having something as convenient as Google Maps. Now we have more real-time surveillance and going outside I know I will be tracked and collected and bought and sold to private companies and the government. There's a psychological cost to knowing you're watched/exploited every time you go outside. In the past this was limited to what people might have seen you do in the public view. Now there are large distributed systems in place to collect an itinerary of your movements - even if you're not the focus of a search. I was born in California, and I don't feel like these systems keep me safer. It makes me want to participate in society less. Maybe I'm just paranoid. I wonder what this at scale, alongside other tracking systems, will do - and how it changes our behavior. I feel harmed by this.

vinchuco 8y ago
> Maybe I'm just paranoid This common saying. I'd rather be paranoid and informed than blissfully ignorant. But a person can only process so much while carrying on with their lives. The jewel beetle attempts to mate with an amber glass bottle it finds attractive until it dies from exhaustion. https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2013/06/19/193493225/the-love-that-dared-not-speak-its-name-of-a-beetle-for-a-beer-bottle https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2013/06/19/193493225/t... We increasingly manufacture our own deception. Deep fakes, targeted advertising, you name it. We are both the beetle and bottle designers. It is definitely worth thinking about. It's much easier to design glass bottles than to save beetles from the best and worst time of their lives. Now, as crafty bottle designer, think of all the stuff you could do, given the necessary resources.