Waaaaaay back in the dark days of early 2006, I gave a little talk at the TED conference on the idea of an “Earth Witness” program, with sensing devices built into mobile phones to allow for collaborative environmental science.
Bluetooth Lifelogging and SimPolitics
by Jamais CascioHow soon until we see one of these? The ”artifact from the future” shown above is my visualization of a bluetooth headset with an embedded cameraphone-style camera, able to send the video to one’s handheld for recording and display. Given that fairly decent cameras can be put into the very small, low-power space of a phone, it stands to reason that—very soon, if not today—clever designers could successfully build one into a headset.
Poll: Twitter?
Apparently most of you agree with me that Twitter - a tool that encourages people to send out their everyday activities to their friends - has little purpose. It would definitely drive me crazy to receive Twitters.
SimCanada, Googlopticon and the Singularity
by Jamais Cascio• Sim Eh?: Canada: The New World (aka, HistoriCanada) is exactly the kind of simulation-history mashup I’ve wanted to see for awhile. Sponsored by Canada’s National History Society and the Historica Society, HistoriCanada uses the Civilization III (with Conquest expansion) engine to play out the 16th-17th Century competition between the French, English, Ojibwe, Huron, Mohawk, Algonquin, Montagnais, Mi’kmaq, and Abenaki for the control of the Canadian territory.
Facebook and the ongoing demise of anonymity
by George DvorskyThe recent upswell of interest in Facebook and other social networking sites has taken us one step closer to the all-knowing and all-seeing social panopticon
Diagramming Sentences of Value: Evolving Human Rights and the Terms of Geoethical Nanotechnology
by Wrye SententiaTalk at 1st Annual Workshop on Geoethical Nanotechnology, July 20, 2005 by Wrye Sententia, Ph.D., Director, Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethic.
Brain Fingerprinting: Databodies to Databrains
by Wrye SententiaWhile in some respects, the sheer proliferation of information and data means no one particular entity can control it, current applications of technological monitoring are allowing governments to compile extensive “databodies” of individuals. Whether criminal or not, anything from a fingerprint to an intercepted e-mail can be tracked, and more and more of what we say and do is recorded. The global trend, in terms of personal data, is toward total monitoring.
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