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On one hand, this technology has all sorts of good uses, like helping emergency services find someone calling them inside a building or helping you navigate in
by ok_dad 4y ago
On one hand, this technology has all sorts of good uses, like helping emergency services find someone calling them inside a building or helping you navigate in skyscrapers where GPS doesn't work well. On the other hand, humans are steaming piles of shit and probably can't be trusted to use this technology properly for just "good" uses. I guess there's no way to reverse course, but it makes me sad that my son might grow up without privacy, where his mistakes are never forgotten.
- kragen 4y agoThey'll be forgotten unless he decides to criticize the police, the ruling party, or Verizon. Or spends a lot of time walking near people who do.
- fosk 4y agoIt’s inevitable that the advance of technology will both improve the world and potentially be a vector of potential misuse. Ultimately, it has always been like that, since the dawn of civilization. The answer is not fighting technological advances, but regulating the use of technology from law enforcement (and the government, and bad actors) instead.