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This reminds me of the 1990 novel 'Earth' by Dan Brin, which featured a near-future populace that all wear the equivalent of Google Glass, and use it to self-po

This reminds me of the 1990 novel 'Earth' by Dan Brin, which featured a near-future populace that all wear the equivalent of Google Glass, and use it to self-police everything they see. Like an open source version of a police state. Not saying it's a good thing, but I feel like it's inevitable with the ubiquity of cameras.

bilbo0s 7y ago
Yep. Just imagine how effective boycotts will be. You just look at the grocery store shelf, and you automagically see which foods you can buy. They'll be able to give tickets on cars much easier as well. Just have AI's pour over everyone's monday video after hours, and get that ticket for parking in the handicapped spot in your mail on wednesday. Most of the impact will be far more intimate though. Bartenders' glasses will just say: "Do Not Serve" when they look at a person. (Automatically keeping track of how many drinks each person is getting.) Women and men at bars will be able to just look at each other, and it will say "Sex Assault Risk", "Has Kids" or "Violent Crime Conviction" or whatever. And that's just connecting the glasses to the public databases. They would also be connected to the small private data repositories updated by a person's close friend group. Imagine the information overlays there. Everything from "Has Girlfriend", to "STD Reported", to "Puts Out", to "Small Penis". I can imagine life becoming almost an open book in the far future.
- pbhjpbhj 7y ago
  >and get that ticket for parking in the handicapped spot in your mail on wednesday. // Lol, I think your age might be showing? Surely you get the charge auto-deducted from your account. That way you can get auto-fined by the bank for having insufficient 'ShelbyvilleCryptoCoin' to pay. Then get auto-fined for getting an unauthorised over-draft, then auto-charged by the government for financial irregularity, then auto-fired by work for "bringing disrepute on the company". Then your 'worker car privelege' gets rescinded and you get picked up by a robocop, citizen, before you even finish your commute. First your wife knows is an automated message saying she no longer owns the house as it's been sold to fund your trip to a prison colony on Rigel Prime ... Or, maybe I watched too much dystopian sci-fi.
  - bilbo0s 7y ago
    Wow. I thought I was using as much imagination as possible coming up with just my likely scenarios. Yours are more Sci-Fi, but there is an uneasy feeling that maybe some of these "auto reporting" type things could actually happen. Likely not to the extent you indicate in your post, but I wonder if they may in the future just auto deduct tickets and such from your bank accounts?
    - exo-pla-net 7y ago
      Precisely this is being done, today, in China. A facial recognition AI keeps track of your location and activities. If you jaywalk, it immediately deducts money from your bank account.
      - nitrogen 7y ago
        How much money? Are there people who just pay for the privilege of jaywalking and don't care about the money or their faces on the shame displays?
  - benj111 7y ago
    Rigel Prime, as the name suggests is prime real estate, you aren't going to send scum of the earth ticket dodgers to somewhere as nice as that. I also like the fact that in this future we send prisoners to different solar systems, but still haven't sorted out self driving cars. Have you not heard Musk? We're getting full self driving next year!
    - pbhjpbhj 7y ago
      You need someone to do the footwork for terra-forming; construct the first bots, service the constructor bots, etc.. Also, there might be dangerous places you don't want to risk damaging a nice robot in!
      - benj111 7y ago
        Perhaps, but if I were governor of Rigel Prime I'd be selling tickets for the chance to be one of the first settlers. Criminal would mess up that image some what. Its like universities and prisons. Both have cheap labour available, but the phd students both want to be there, and are paying to be there, thus universities are more profitable than prisons.

bilbo0s 7y ago

Yep. Just imagine how effective boycotts will be. You just look at the grocery store shelf, and you automagically see which foods you can buy. They'll be able to give tickets on cars much easier as well. Just have AI's pour over everyone's monday video after hours, and get that ticket for parking in the handicapped spot in your mail on wednesday. Most of the impact will be far more intimate though. Bartenders' glasses will just say: "Do Not Serve" when they look at a person. (Automatically keeping track of how many drinks each person is getting.) Women and men at bars will be able to just look at each other, and it will say "Sex Assault Risk", "Has Kids" or "Violent Crime Conviction" or whatever. And that's just connecting the glasses to the public databases. They would also be connected to the small private data repositories updated by a person's close friend group. Imagine the information overlays there. Everything from "Has Girlfriend", to "STD Reported", to "Puts Out", to "Small Penis". I can imagine life becoming almost an open book in the far future.

pbhjpbhj 7y ago
>and get that ticket for parking in the handicapped spot in your mail on wednesday. // Lol, I think your age might be showing? Surely you get the charge auto-deducted from your account. That way you can get auto-fined by the bank for having insufficient 'ShelbyvilleCryptoCoin' to pay. Then get auto-fined for getting an unauthorised over-draft, then auto-charged by the government for financial irregularity, then auto-fired by work for "bringing disrepute on the company". Then your 'worker car privelege' gets rescinded and you get picked up by a robocop, citizen, before you even finish your commute. First your wife knows is an automated message saying she no longer owns the house as it's been sold to fund your trip to a prison colony on Rigel Prime ... Or, maybe I watched too much dystopian sci-fi.
- bilbo0s 7y ago
  Wow. I thought I was using as much imagination as possible coming up with just my likely scenarios. Yours are more Sci-Fi, but there is an uneasy feeling that maybe some of these "auto reporting" type things could actually happen. Likely not to the extent you indicate in your post, but I wonder if they may in the future just auto deduct tickets and such from your bank accounts?
  - exo-pla-net 7y ago
    Precisely this is being done, today, in China. A facial recognition AI keeps track of your location and activities. If you jaywalk, it immediately deducts money from your bank account.
    - nitrogen 7y ago
      How much money? Are there people who just pay for the privilege of jaywalking and don't care about the money or their faces on the shame displays?
- benj111 7y ago
  Rigel Prime, as the name suggests is prime real estate, you aren't going to send scum of the earth ticket dodgers to somewhere as nice as that. I also like the fact that in this future we send prisoners to different solar systems, but still haven't sorted out self driving cars. Have you not heard Musk? We're getting full self driving next year!
  - pbhjpbhj 7y ago
    You need someone to do the footwork for terra-forming; construct the first bots, service the constructor bots, etc.. Also, there might be dangerous places you don't want to risk damaging a nice robot in!
    - benj111 7y ago
      Perhaps, but if I were governor of Rigel Prime I'd be selling tickets for the chance to be one of the first settlers. Criminal would mess up that image some what. Its like universities and prisons. Both have cheap labour available, but the phd students both want to be there, and are paying to be there, thus universities are more profitable than prisons.