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Google blimps will carry wireless signal across Africa
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#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
High resolution ground photography and mobile location tracking came to mind. Google often cooperates with government and police.
Government and police are already logging the net. If you think you have any privacy online you haven't been paying enough attention.
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#94Africa will be bigger than both India and China combined. There are whole cities waiting to be built. Check out the Solow growth model: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoclassical_growth_model
The entire population of Africa is less than the population of India or China, and far below the two of them combined.
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#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
High resolution ground photography and mobile location tracking came to mind. Google often cooperates with government and police.
Government and police are already logging the net. If you think you have any privacy online you haven't been paying enough attention.
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#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
High resolution ground photography and mobile location tracking came to mind. Google often cooperates with government and police.
> Google often cooperates with government and police. Next you're going to tell me that they're considered a legal entity in many countries.
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#97And so it begins. There is a new age coming, one where we realise surveillance is ubiquitous and more importantly carries benefits for us as well as loss of what we thought of as privacy. This is probably a good thing. These blimps will not be the last of atmospheric and LEO orbitals that will criss cross the globe and provide always-on services we suddenly cannot live without. We do need to manage who holds and uses…
Why are you assuming this is automatically a surveillance tool? It's not a drone with the explicit intent to search for something. It's a way to get Internet to people.
I am not using surveillance as "bad things governments spy on us with" but "side effects of joining billions of people to humanities central nervous system" - all of a sudden the clues and inferences about our lives that previously could only be gleaned by our neighbours (when we left the house, with whom) are on an electronic bulletin board and available to almost anyone who cares to look.
If this takes off, wifi repeaters and solar charging stations will appear in villages and towns, and guess what with that detail each user will hand over position, time and search information - every drop able to glean more about them than the secret polices best efforts.
Our only hope is it is like rain - it surveils the just and unjust alike
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
High resolution ground photography and mobile location tracking came to mind. Google often cooperates with government and police.
Government and police are already logging the net. If you think you have any privacy online you haven't been paying enough attention.
They are. And it turned out to be a huge failure, at least here [0].
In any case, you'll have a lot more privacy if you stop using Google services.
[0] http://techpresident.com/news/wegov/23918/denmark-government...
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#99Africa will be bigger than both India and China combined. There are whole cities waiting to be built. Check out the Solow growth model: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoclassical_growth_model
The entire population of Africa is less than the population of India or China, and far below the two of them combined.
That's the point. Massive growth is coming. Africa will round off the population of the planet.
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#100Something for the sheep standing on Zanzibar to look up at.