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Then again, computing power and data-requirements both expand at a high rate together, when there are a gazillion cores and terabytes of RAM available for sneak

Then again, computing power and data-requirements both expand at a high rate together, when there are a gazillion cores and terabytes of RAM available for sneaky intelligence business, there will be 4k (or even higher, sky's the limit (and the size of the photon, obviously.) Today various intelligence agencies like the NSA as we now know collect insane amounts of data on the population, but they're unable to effectively sift through it all. When Google Glass gets refined, minimalized and meets fashion, we'll see an impossible amount of increase in data. This is my bright point in the future as far as surveillance goes, for instance dashcams in Russia became a neccessity for the individual citizen to remain safe in face of the law, the results we all know where meteor strikes are documented better than ever, where law officials have to take care what they do, where car accidents are right down to the facts on the mem chip, etc. GGlass can become the same thing on an even more personal level, the truth becomes more easily available when any one person with the ability to press a button can document an event for the world to see.

InclinedPlane 13y ago
It doesn't require processing all data though, just enough of it. Consider something simple like identification. How do you automatically identify someone from video? Face recognition is the go to method now, and it will be used in the future as well, but it will be more capable, of course. But that's only one out of many techniques that are possible, especially with massive amounts of computing power and storage available. Once you've identified someone once in video you can match up other data, such as kinematics and biometrics. How tall you are, how much you weigh, what your overall shape is, your hair color and style, etc. Your typical routines and hangout places. Where you buy coffee, where you watch movies, where you shop. Also, the way you hold yourself, how you walk and stand. Your friends can recognize you without seeing your face, often using these sorts of clues, but there's no reason computers can't use the same techniques. Meanwhile, with enough data computers can catalog your wardrobe. With that sort of information available, and it's really not an enormous amount of data per person, it'll be possible to automatically identify people even without their faces visible, even if they're wearing new clothes and have recently changed their hair styles, and then that info will be cataloged. And again, that's just square one. It'll be almost trivial to keep track of where everyone is, what they are doing, and with whom on a time scale of at least every day. Then there are the scary things. Videos of crowds at protests and rallies can and will be automatically indexed to identify every single participant, even if they're covering their faces. And that's the least imaginative thing that will be possible with such a torrent of data and analysis.

InclinedPlane 13y ago

It doesn't require processing all data though, just enough of it. Consider something simple like identification. How do you automatically identify someone from video? Face recognition is the go to method now, and it will be used in the future as well, but it will be more capable, of course. But that's only one out of many techniques that are possible, especially with massive amounts of computing power and storage available. Once you've identified someone once in video you can match up other data, such as kinematics and biometrics. How tall you are, how much you weigh, what your overall shape is, your hair color and style, etc. Your typical routines and hangout places. Where you buy coffee, where you watch movies, where you shop. Also, the way you hold yourself, how you walk and stand. Your friends can recognize you without seeing your face, often using these sorts of clues, but there's no reason computers can't use the same techniques. Meanwhile, with enough data computers can catalog your wardrobe. With that sort of information available, and it's really not an enormous amount of data per person, it'll be possible to automatically identify people even without their faces visible, even if they're wearing new clothes and have recently changed their hair styles, and then that info will be cataloged. And again, that's just square one. It'll be almost trivial to keep track of where everyone is, what they are doing, and with whom on a time scale of at least every day. Then there are the scary things. Videos of crowds at protests and rallies can and will be automatically indexed to identify every single participant, even if they're covering their faces. And that's the least imaginative thing that will be possible with such a torrent of data and analysis.