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So you're saying the future is in robotics.

• SideburnsOfDoom 12y ago
  The future is monitoring and surveillance. That's what these systems do. That and a few data-driven suggestions here and there.
  • midnightreactor 12y ago
    Here's a novel perspective for you: This class of devices are subsidized pieces of technology for use by a group of people, a portion of which for whom it could argued would not have access to the resources this technology provides, and they have access to a greater wealth of data because they are not entitled to rights management for the data they produce, for better or worse. The challenge of these systems is gaining value and insight of understanding different aspects of human behavior while considering the risk/reward calculation each actor engaged in the system. Your use of the words monitoring and surveillance betrays an implied connotation which could be described in the vein of paranoid or Orwellian. It's disingenuous to distill the entirety of what these systems do as "monitoring and surveillance [...] and a few data-driven suggestions here and there". It's more like "monitoring and surveillance" are what these systems are, implied context or not, and what you and I get out of it are suggestions informed by the data of what you and I and everyone else participating actually does within a system.
  • angersock 12y ago
    To midnightreactor: You've been shadowbanned by the HN hivemind. Better luck next account. :(