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In a Periscope anecdote, Scott Adams of Dilbert fame went on about 5G bringing enrichment via eyewear such that profiles of people you meet pop up, and any othe

In a Periscope anecdote, Scott Adams of Dilbert fame went on about 5G bringing enrichment via eyewear such that profiles of people you meet pop up, and any other VR variation you can imagine. The geek can groove on turning cities into the holodeck on the Enterprise. But one surmises that the appeal of gadget-free living in the country will grow, also. Seems hard to derive a good balance point with "enough" technology for optimal enjoyment without begetting Big Brother along the way.

Latty 6y ago
Scott Adams seems to be pretty divorced from reality, so I would take his ideas with a pinch of salt. (To clarify: He's also claimed that if Biden wins the election, Republicans will literally be hunted in the streets, and I think regardless of your political views that is pretty clearly not actually going to happen, so his ability to predict future events with any accuracy isn't something I'd trust. Source: https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1278316325044056064 https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/127831632504405606...)
- smitty1e 6y ago
  To clarify: when not raising interesting technical points, he does engage in overt trolling to test cancel culture limits, yes. He has stated this in his Periscopes.
  - Latty 6y ago
    I'm not sure “this person routinely trolls” implies that he is going to have particularly valuable insight either. Are you sure his 5G ideas aren't just trolling too? I can't see how what he suggests requires 5G really.
  - sseagull 6y ago
    Seems like Popehat’s Rule of Goats applies, then. And therefore he is not credible. For the unfamiliar (contains NSFW language) https://twitter.com/popehat/status/858722120620265473 https://twitter.com/popehat/status/858722120620265473
  - TooSmugToFail 6y ago
    Adams is the worst kind racist bigot. Hiding his true face behind "testing the limits", "trolling", and other seemingly clever "unconventional ways of challenging the social norms". That's just the manipulative narrative to make the highly toxic and divisive racist drivel he is peddling more palatable to the more moderate of his fans, who typically fail to see who he really is because their perception of him is framed by Dilbert comics. I am not American, I have no stake in American elections whatsoever, but people like Adams make me question humanity. The guy makes me sick.
    - smitty1e 6y ago
      I do not agree with this assertion. Adams has also claimed twice to have himself been a victim of direct, stated-to-his-face discrimination on the job.
      - TooSmugToFail 6y ago
        Which supposedly should justify his own racism, and presumably gave birth to his unwavering support for the Orange Idiot, down to dying on the hydroxychloroquine hill, the most idiotic of all.
- swebs 6y ago
  Does every thread really have to turn into some us-vs-them USA election fight?
  - Shared404 6y ago
    It'll be better post-November. Edit: Not to say that it is good or appropriate now, but there is light at the end of the tunnel, at least for a couple years.
  - Latty 6y ago
    That was very much not my intent. I don't think my comment should be “us-vs-them” as I believe it holds regardless of your political position. The person I was responding to has claimed it was intended as an intentionality absurd “troll”, so it should surely be seen as absurd no matter where you stand.
  - andybak 6y ago
    I read that as a crazy people vs non-crazy people thing.
    - casefields 6y ago
      And crazy people already do crazy things. Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Congressional_baseball_shooting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Congressional_baseball_sh...
      - andybak 6y ago
        I genuinely don't understand how that has any real connection to the topic at hand.
  - dylan604 6y ago
    In this context, it does go to show Scott's not a very valid future predictor.
    - smitty1e 6y ago
- jquery 6y ago
  In the same thread Scott Adams says all of us will be dead from climate change in 10 years. Scott Adams likes to pull Twitter pranks so I would take these tweets with grain of salts without knowing the larger context.
  - smitty1e 6y ago
    Check out his Periscopes for a more full exposition of his thought.
toast0 6y ago
> 5G bringing enrichment via eyewear such that profiles of people you meet pop up I don't see what 5g brings to this application. This could be a offline application with a one time face/profile database. More probably it would be released as offline face detection, upload face images to the cloud to match and get profiles. 5G has better dataspeeds, but uploading cropped faces over LTE would be fine. Maybe you could use it more reliably at the ballpark where there's enough density to justify deploying base stations in the new high frequency / low range spectrum.
- Someone 6y ago
  FTA: “5G networks will be able to use the round-trip time from a single tower to locate a device. That’s because massive MIMO and beamforming allow 5G towers to send precise signals directly to devices” That could make face identification a lot easier and more reliable. Instead of matching against a database of everyone in the cell tower’s range, it could match against faces known to be in sight. And yes, the thought of phone providers knowing the fairly precise location of all their subscribers’ phones (and smart watches, and cars, and smart TVs, and fridges, etc) all the time scares me, too.

Latty 6y ago

Scott Adams seems to be pretty divorced from reality, so I would take his ideas with a pinch of salt. (To clarify: He's also claimed that if Biden wins the election, Republicans will literally be hunted in the streets, and I think regardless of your political views that is pretty clearly not actually going to happen, so his ability to predict future events with any accuracy isn't something I'd trust. Source: https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1278316325044056064 https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/127831632504405606...)

smitty1e 6y ago
To clarify: when not raising interesting technical points, he does engage in overt trolling to test cancel culture limits, yes. He has stated this in his Periscopes.
- Latty 6y ago
  I'm not sure “this person routinely trolls” implies that he is going to have particularly valuable insight either. Are you sure his 5G ideas aren't just trolling too? I can't see how what he suggests requires 5G really.
- sseagull 6y ago
  Seems like Popehat’s Rule of Goats applies, then. And therefore he is not credible. For the unfamiliar (contains NSFW language) https://twitter.com/popehat/status/858722120620265473 https://twitter.com/popehat/status/858722120620265473
- TooSmugToFail 6y ago
  Adams is the worst kind racist bigot. Hiding his true face behind "testing the limits", "trolling", and other seemingly clever "unconventional ways of challenging the social norms". That's just the manipulative narrative to make the highly toxic and divisive racist drivel he is peddling more palatable to the more moderate of his fans, who typically fail to see who he really is because their perception of him is framed by Dilbert comics. I am not American, I have no stake in American elections whatsoever, but people like Adams make me question humanity. The guy makes me sick.
  - smitty1e 6y ago
    I do not agree with this assertion. Adams has also claimed twice to have himself been a victim of direct, stated-to-his-face discrimination on the job.
    - TooSmugToFail 6y ago
      Which supposedly should justify his own racism, and presumably gave birth to his unwavering support for the Orange Idiot, down to dying on the hydroxychloroquine hill, the most idiotic of all.
swebs 6y ago
Does every thread really have to turn into some us-vs-them USA election fight?
- Shared404 6y ago
  It'll be better post-November. Edit: Not to say that it is good or appropriate now, but there is light at the end of the tunnel, at least for a couple years.
- Latty 6y ago
  That was very much not my intent. I don't think my comment should be “us-vs-them” as I believe it holds regardless of your political position. The person I was responding to has claimed it was intended as an intentionality absurd “troll”, so it should surely be seen as absurd no matter where you stand.
- andybak 6y ago
  I read that as a crazy people vs non-crazy people thing.
  - casefields 6y ago
    And crazy people already do crazy things. Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Congressional_baseball_shooting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Congressional_baseball_sh...
    - andybak 6y ago
      I genuinely don't understand how that has any real connection to the topic at hand.
- dylan604 6y ago
  In this context, it does go to show Scott's not a very valid future predictor.
  - smitty1e 6y ago
jquery 6y ago
In the same thread Scott Adams says all of us will be dead from climate change in 10 years. Scott Adams likes to pull Twitter pranks so I would take these tweets with grain of salts without knowing the larger context.
- smitty1e 6y ago
  Check out his Periscopes for a more full exposition of his thought.

toast0 6y ago

> 5G bringing enrichment via eyewear such that profiles of people you meet pop up I don't see what 5g brings to this application. This could be a offline application with a one time face/profile database. More probably it would be released as offline face detection, upload face images to the cloud to match and get profiles. 5G has better dataspeeds, but uploading cropped faces over LTE would be fine. Maybe you could use it more reliably at the ballpark where there's enough density to justify deploying base stations in the new high frequency / low range spectrum.

Someone 6y ago
FTA: “5G networks will be able to use the round-trip time from a single tower to locate a device. That’s because massive MIMO and beamforming allow 5G towers to send precise signals directly to devices” That could make face identification a lot easier and more reliable. Instead of matching against a database of everyone in the cell tower’s range, it could match against faces known to be in sight. And yes, the thought of phone providers knowing the fairly precise location of all their subscribers’ phones (and smart watches, and cars, and smart TVs, and fridges, etc) all the time scares me, too.