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- From: Travis Faust <tnfaust AT gmail.com>
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- Subject: Re: [Ctrl-Shift] Terms of Service - web comic
- Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2014 08:52:05 -0600
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Thanks for sharing, Katrina! When I watched Minority Report (at a friend's request), I didn't bat an eye at the pre-crime pseudoscience. It was the tracking and advertising that freaked me out, because I knew that it was realistic, doable, and a matter of time. That was twelve years ago, and most of that technology exists in some form or another today; though it has yet to be applied in exactly that way, Web 3.0 is coming, and it's probably going to look a lot like that at some point.
I like that they get into the question of who benefits and what problems we're really "solving," but I would have liked to see more on the power structures. Although I suppose that would have further politicized it. :) Cheers!
- Travis
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Charles Schultz <sacrophyte AT gmail.com> wrote:
I want my red stapler back. *sly grin*And oh, by the way, is that a gmail account you are using? :)It seems to me that if we acknowledge and understand how information itself has become a commodity, we begin to see why privacy is such a big concern. Because of my own involvement with boards and occasional brushes with politics, I also see a cross-over to democracy and how we have given too much power away, at the benefit of a few who grow more powerful and more rich. We don't even know what we are giving up, let alone how to get it back. There does not seem to be an undo button for this thing we call "progress".Also, because I am a database professional and I go to tech conferences, I hear (and even understand) how big tech companies are getting excited about this "internet of things" (aka, IoT), and how there is a lot of buzz that seems to be self-generated, self-congratulatory kind of "because we can" mentality. There is not much thought as to what we really need. Instead, we constantly seek out new solutions in need of a problem.Going back to politics, how many laws (of all the insane, burdensome, overwhelming laws that we have on the books) actually address a root problem, as opposed to the symptoms? Look at the spaghetti code which governs our taxes. Who are the people who are really benefiting from exploiting all the loop holes? We don't really know. Oddly, in our "information age", those that really should be most transparent and accountable are turning the tables to force it upon everyone else but provide shadows for themselves to hide in.The funny thing is, there is a general assumption that people will tell the truth about themselves via social media. My daughter was born in 1905 and she is male, according to her google profile. I am just waiting to see how that plays out in the long run. If we cannot control who gets our data, the least we can do is have some fun with it.On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 12:43 PM, Katrina Kennett <katrina.kennett AT gmail.com> wrote:_______________________________________________Hi all!Last night I mentioned this piece of journalism about Terms of Service and wanted to pass it along - I definitely found it worth the read. Lots to think about opting-in to big data.KatrinaKatrina KennettLiteracy & Language, Doctoral StudentUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignEducation Resources Consortium, Consulting Practitioner
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- [Ctrl-Shift] Terms of Service - web comic, Katrina Kennett, 11/05/2014
- Re: [Ctrl-Shift] Terms of Service - web comic, Charles Schultz, 11/05/2014
- Re: [Ctrl-Shift] Terms of Service - web comic, Travis Faust, 11/06/2014
- Re: [Ctrl-Shift] Terms of Service - web comic, Charles Schultz, 11/05/2014
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