I don't usually worry much about surveillance. My life's more or less an open book but this story scares me a bit. I can just imagine a group of Apple employees, huddled around a bunch of screens with a million red dots moving around on a Google map of the world:
http://happywaffle.livejournal.com/5890.html Pall On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 10:15 PM, james morris<ja...@jwm-art.net> wrote: > >>shop, store and share products. The analogue bar code that has for so >>long been a dumb encrypted reference to a shop’s inventory system, will >>be superseded by an open platform in which every object manufactured >>will be able to be tracked from cradle to grave, through manufacturer to >>distributor, to potentially every single person who comes into contact > > great! more surveillance! > >>with it following its purchase. Further still, every object that comes >>close to another object, and is within range of a reader, could also be >>logged on a database and used to find correlations between owners and >>applications. In a world that has relied upon a linear chain of supply >>and demand between manufacturer and consumer via high street shop, the >>Internet of Things has the potential to transform how we will treat >>objects, care about their origin and use them to find other objects. If >>every new object is within reach of a reader, everything is searchable >>and findable, subsequently the shopping experience may never be the > > great! even more surveillance! > >>same, and the concept of throwing away objects may become a thing of the >>past as other people find new uses for old things. > > Wow man, I'm glad all these technical boffins come up with such > fantastic ideas... Just a pity the Wombles[1] beat them to it. > > [1] http://www.tidybag.co.uk/ > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- ***************************** Pall Thayer artist http://www.this.is/pallit ***************************** _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
