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Interesting response. Gently warming frog? If something like this was described in say 1990 I suspect your opinion might be stronger, perhaps even horrified. T
by throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
Interesting response. Gently warming frog? If something like this was described in say 1990 I suspect your opinion might be stronger, perhaps even horrified.
Te parent's "...but I really hope they can push the tech further to make it even more useful than what it is at current" is basically 'let's have more of this'. Convenience is evidently winning out over risk or privacy intrusion and a the panopticon not by the back door but by the front door, with a welcome mat outside and a nice cup of tea waiting within.
To be blunt, I find this POV scary.
- TLightful 6y ago1000 upvotes.
- shadowgovt 6y agoDavid Brin predicts this in The Transparent Society: these technologies are ushered in not by governments looking to enforce control over their people, but by private individuals looking for more control over their lives (including keeping their property and the people in their lives they are responsible for safe and secure). Ring doorbells and cheap webcams are other examples. Brin's takeaway is the genie is out of the bottle, and the thing to do is decide what level of surveillance we're comfortable with.
- ipython 6y agoActually in the early 2000s I remember openly welcoming this technology. At the time it was not obvious to me at least that this sort of information would so easily be abused by corporations and governments. It just seemed like a great personal assistant and the rose colored glasses were firmly attached.