"Man will make it his purpose to master his own feelings, to raise his instincts to the heights of consciousness, to make them transparent, to extend the wires of his will into hidden recesses, and thereby to raise himself to a new plane, to create a higher social biologic type, or, if you please, a superman." Leon Trotsky, Literature and Revolution
Professor of Rhetoric and Science Studies, Penn State University
Richard Doyle is a Professor of Rhetoric and Science Studies at Penn State University. His works include On Beyond Living, LSDNA A Work in Progress and Wetwares:Experiments in Post Vital Living.
Biotelemetrics: Towards a Peer to Peer Privacy Planet?
“Biotelemetrics” names a diverse set of practices, technologies and disciplines oriented toward the non-invasive determination of human identity at a distance. Facial recognition, iris scans, gait signatures, and residual DNA analysis all compete with dozens of other technologies to render the holy grail of contemporary security science: the cheap, reliable and anonymous apprehension of human identity. This talk will review emerging IEC/ITU/ISO standards for biotelemetrics and the technologies likely to emerge from them, with a focus on the socio-political effects of ubiquitous biotelemetrics. The talk will offer a model for a “Peer to Peer Privacy Planet” in which the commons, and not the State, becomes the most effective guardian of individual privacy and global security.
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