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Re: Things that I think will be important in the next decade

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Post by mewpmewp2 »

root_axis wrote: post #143
mewpmewp2 wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well the argument was whether one can do reasonably as well without Facebook. So the point is there are quite many inconveniences caused by that. This is why it would be preferable that Facebook was regulated properly. It is not as simple as asking to send an SMS. I will be missing out on a lot of information, bonding opportunities, picture sharing and I will be that annoying dude making others jump through extra hoo…

Incoveninece is the price of change. > It is not as simple as asking to send an SMS It is. Inform your friends that you don't use Facebook and ask them to treat you the same way they would treat any other friend that doesn't use Facebook: reach out and communicate through any of the other myriad ways available to everyone. > I am personally not going to make that sacrifice. That's fine, but any objections you have to…

I can still object and demand government to do something about that. This is my legal right. If I quit Facebook it is not going to solve the problem on a higher level except alienate me from other people.

This is not a silly hyperbole. It would be a solution to avoid sharing your data with anyone. There are also other entities that could abuse your data.

SMS might not be the safest thing either.

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Post by rapnie »

artemisyna wrote: post #95

The number of people in this thread that apparently know the secret, nefarious intentions that Zuckerberg truly has is... Well, not surprising, given that this is the internet and Hacker News. :)

Well, this is a thread speculating about the future decade, reflecting on a guy's insights who has a dubious track record, by intelligent people that are in the loop of current tech trends.

Re: Things that I think will be important in the next decade

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Post by sverhagen »

dannyw wrote: post #163

What sort of censorship is going on in the comments? If you look at the Twitter responses to any famous person's comment, you can see how polarising it tends to be. Everyone there is kissing Zuckerberg's ass, for the lack of a better expression (sorry). What's going on there?

You have to be on Facebook to respond? Selection bias?

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Post by abdullahkhalids »

Cookingboy wrote: post #13
jonstewart wrote: post #3

I think antitrust enforcement and privacy legislation will be important in the next decade.

I honestly don't think privacy legislation would make much headway, simply for the reason that vast majority of people outside of the HackerNews crowd don't care about it. When people say they care about privacy, most of the time they mean they care about anonymity, as in privacy from people who knows them personally. They don't want their internet search history to be known by friends or family or coworkers, but the…

My personal experience has been that people often don't know the extent of the data recorded and stored by corporations. For instance, someone (young and otherwise smart) simply refused to believe me when I told them that Google maps estimates traffic by tracking the location of every car using Google maps [1]. They thought Google was using live satellites imagery to estimate traffic.

[1] Didn't even mention the part about Google possibly tracking your location even if you don't use maps.

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Post by atdt »

nikolay wrote: post #165
bitexploder wrote: post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I did have a hard time taking any of what he wrote seriously. It was not thought provoking for me and I felt it wasn’t deep or interesting. It’s interesting in the sense that it is useful to know where FB may be headed, but when I think of Facebook all I see is another advertising company looking for more ways to put ads in front of captive eyeballs.

One thing I can't understand is why Facebook is still around. But, at the same time, Twitter is still around, too. I guess people got tired switching platforms.

The vast majority of users have never known other platforms.

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Post by gvjddbnvdrbv »

donmcronald wrote: post #80
cmdshiftf4 wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>When people say they care about privacy, most of the time they mean they care about anonymity, as in privacy from people who knows them personally. They don't want their internet search history to be known by friends or family or coworkers, but they probably have no qualm if it's just data being sent to large corporate service providers. >That's why people would continue to trade personal info for conveniences for t…

And soon if you don't want to be priced out of the market for important things like insurance, you'll be forced to go along with the invasive tech: https://onezero.medium.com/if-you-want-cheap-car-insurance-y... How do the ethics line up for an insurance company analyzing data from your wearables and seeing a data point that indicates a significant increase in the chance of a heart attack? Do they tell you and pay fo…

And that is why many countries have nationalised healthcare.

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Post by nickbauman »

nikolay wrote: post #154

I think Zuck is too full of himself. People often get confused that their success means that they are wise, and that we should listen to them. Should we as well follow the thought leadership of drug cartels and the Saudi monarchs?

"Full of himself"? Way too mild an indictment. In the last 24 hours Facebook bought a story in a publication, pretended it wasn’t sponsored, their COO posted it, then when they got caught, they denied knowing anything about it. And what was that ad/story about? Their commitment to stopping disinformation. All the while we've learned that they have utterly sold the company to international electioneers.

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Post by gexla »

nikolay wrote: post #154

I think Zuck is too full of himself. People often get confused that their success means that they are wise, and that we should listen to them. Should we as well follow the thought leadership of drug cartels and the Saudi monarchs?

> I think Zuck is too full of himself. People often get confused that their success means that they are wise, and that we should listen to them.

Wow, you just described like greater than 99% of the internet.

Search engine results these days is like taking a metal detector to the city dump.

We might as well use Taleb's idea of Lindy to find good information. Unfortunately, the internet hasn't been around long enough for anything published direct to web to qualify.

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Post by agumonkey »

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #111
cmdshiftf4 wrote: post #52

>"at some point in the 2020s, we will get breakthrough augmented reality glasses that will redefine our relationship with technology." Constant video surveillance, direct-to-eyes on-glass advertising, targeted advertising beamed on every approved spot, interests profiling via retina movements/focus and God knows what else will undoubtedly come about if AR glasses become "cool" and ubiquitous like mobile phones. Maybe…

Huh, I just want my heads up life display because...why not? Maybe I won’t trust Facebook to give it to me, but if the tech becomes good enough, I’m definitely going to embrace it. Is it really a dystopian future? We’ve adjusted to the telegraph, camera, telephone, radio, TV, cell phone, smart phone and...why are AR glasses going to be the tech to bring society down?

We didn't adjust to these. They were valueable. Everything since 2010 comes with warnings, and a whole bouquet of side effects

I used to want more, now I want less. Even if I can make my own HUD I wouldn't make it.

For some jobs though I'd be happy to try: emergency, medicine

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