How the world will change as computers spread into everyday objects
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#3"Such a world will bring many benefits. Consumers will get convenience, and products that can do things non-computerised versions cannot. Amazon’s Ring smart doorbells, for instance, come equipped with motion sensors and video cameras. Working together, they can also form what is, in effect, a private CCTV network, allowing the firm to offer its customers a “digital neighbourhood-watch” scheme and pass any interesting video along to the police."
This is the best they could come up with as an example for the "many benefits"? Tilt your head only slightly privacy-leaning and this looks like a terrifying dystopia. Of course the Orwellian nightmare won't come to "law abiding" middle and upper-class citizens, who will most be tracked as unwitting lab rats by mega tech firms intent on understanding every aspect of human life in order to monetize it, usually through ads and Chinese-style digital karma, but the marginalized groups--ethnic minorities, political dissidents, and the "mentally unstable" will be persecuted and hounded endlessly by digital means. With mass shootings all over the US, it's only a matter of time until they weaponize the already-built surveillance network to red-flag people. As usual, our own fear of each other is way out ahead, on the leading edge of technology.
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#4"Such a world will bring many benefits. Consumers will get convenience, and products that can do things non-computerised versions cannot. Amazon’s Ring smart doorbells, for instance, come equipped with motion sensors and video cameras. Working together, they can also form what is, in effect, a private CCTV network, allowing the firm to offer its customers a “digital neighbourhood-watch” scheme and pass any interestin…
Oof private CCTV network, so they can sell the live video feeds. Imagine the possibilities with face recognition. Wanna follow your wife everywhere? Want to follow anyone you want to stalk? No problem for this fee you will have access to our video feed and face recognition software, which will enable you to track anyone and anywhere.
Want their DNA? No problem. Want their interests? Sleeping schedule? Work schedule? If you got the money we got the stuff.
Future is looking really interesting.
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#5Less hand waving, more real examples please Economist.
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#6"Such a world will bring many benefits. Consumers will get convenience, and products that can do things non-computerised versions cannot. Amazon’s Ring smart doorbells, for instance, come equipped with motion sensors and video cameras. Working together, they can also form what is, in effect, a private CCTV network, allowing the firm to offer its customers a “digital neighbourhood-watch” scheme and pass any interestin…
Exactly right. Every individual will be a subject of the silent red flag machine, and not even the machine's owners will be able to tell why. No redemption in sight, unless, of course, you have the money to buy an indulgence.
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#7"Such a world will bring many benefits. Consumers will get convenience, and products that can do things non-computerised versions cannot. Amazon’s Ring smart doorbells, for instance, come equipped with motion sensors and video cameras. Working together, they can also form what is, in effect, a private CCTV network, allowing the firm to offer its customers a “digital neighbourhood-watch” scheme and pass any interestin…
Oof private CCTV network, so they can sell the live video feeds. Imagine the possibilities with face recognition. Wanna follow your wife everywhere? Want to follow anyone you want to stalk? No problem for this fee you will have access to our video feed and face recognition software, which will enable you to track anyone and anywhere. Want their DNA? No problem. Want their interests? Sleeping schedule? Work schedule?…
Think about the botnets you can build from cheap IoT with lousy security to basically control billions of devices in peoples homes.
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#8I think every day products will have increased use, life, and other benefits being able to have a IoT device that enhances our lives as the current products are just there in our lives.
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#9Shockingly, this was published last week. I was expecting a mid-90's/early-00s article.
I don't understand why this is an article. Its basically saying "Imagine if the Internet of Things.... wait for it.... had more Things!" Of course you'll see an increase in efficiency, and the balance of power will shift toward larger corporations capable of harnessing said efficiency. This has been happening for 15 years. This is not news to anyone.
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#10I've said this before, but the "Internet of Things" is a bad vision for the future. Dystopian, almost. I don't want every little thing to be a computer running software that is buggy, out of date, insecure, out of my control, and constantly pestering me for updates.
What I want is one smart device: a robot that can operate all my non-smart devices. The robot can set the thermostat, unlock the door, flip the light switches, do the laundry and the dishes, monitor the house while I'm away, etc. That's the goal we should be working towards. IoT should be seen as, at best, a stopgap solution. It's not a desirable end state.