The "Gargoyles" from Snow Crash don't seem that far off base. edit: Hey, what do you know: http://igargoyle.com/
Hey, that's my site!
Would You Wear a Camcorder on Your Ear?
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#32A few iterations on this and it would be excellent for law enforcement. (See "Halting State" for a future Britain in which cops are required to wear them.) It is also one of the easiest protections against police abuse of authority which you can actually sell to good cops.
And vice-versa. I could see people wearing this on situations where they believe the police might act illegally, in particular during protests. It would probably need to stream directly to some online server, which perhaps this isn't equipped for.
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#33What if we make this gadget even smaller and embed it into, say, glasses, then connect it with portable hard drive? I am too lazy to do the calculations, but assuming the disk space for a month worth of footage costs $300, it is not out of reach of average person. Maybe our children will have complete record of their lives, will always be able to recall what happened to them, what are the names of people they met, wh…
Litigation counsel will have a field day (and make a ton of money) demanding, then reviewing, life-log records of people associated with lawsuits and/or litigants.
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#34" If, for instance, you’re hiking and a bear crosses your trail, you’ve got it on video. " At least when someone finds bear droppings and an ear piece they can put 2 and 2 together. I see it mostly as a way of protecting yourself in court.
Do you get arrested for crimes you did not commit sufficiently often to make recording all your activities worthwhile, or is this primarily of value to the incredibly paranoid?
For the incredibly paranoid and those that would otherwise use mini recorders to do the same thing with just audio. In those cases it would likely be better disguised by removing it from the ear piece. Mostly situations that would come up in small claims court where it's your word against theirs and whatever evidence you've managed to gather.
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#35A few iterations on this and it would be excellent for law enforcement. (See "Halting State" for a future Britain in which cops are required to wear them.) It is also one of the easiest protections against police abuse of authority which you can actually sell to good cops.
3 chapters left, and i highly recommend "halting state". it's a fun book that flips back and forth between the realverse and an online metaverse. the book mostly deals with the unraveling mystery behind a crime that happens in that metaverse.
i hope it get's optioned as a movie, it would make a great cyberpunk film.
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#36after reading the comments, it seems that the notion of interestingness is tightly coupled with this technology.
how would one filter video for important or interesting moments? socially in public? or privately with an algorithm, agent, or ai?
i think as data becomes essentially free and infinite, the need for non-human help to filter through it becomes necessary.
infinite in the star trek sense, meaning it's not actually infinite, but supply easily out strips consumption. st is not a resource limited economy