[Sigia-l] Issues in the taxonomy of human experience

[Thomas Quine]

Skot Nelson:

> google is probably the biggest threat to your privacy that exists at
> this point.

Google is out there doing no evil, but don't forget the American
government has the right to track your every move on the Internet, read
your every email, etc. and has the right to demand every piece of
information that Google has access to. So keep your nose clean, Citizen
Smith.

In Europe privacy is viewed as a right, in America as a commodity. Every
privacy in America is for sale.

But as far as I'm concerned, the battle for privacy is already lost,
long before the London underground bombings made everyone wish for
streetcams on every corner and loocams in every public facility.

I'm proceeding on the assumption that every word I write, every
keystroke, is public knowledge, and that every move I make is on camera.
Get over it and get on with it. Resistance is futile.

Did you read about the new wearable videocam? It records your life on
the Internet. (http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,111236,00.asp).
"Little Brother" is watching you!

All I'm waiting for is the introduction of Google Face Recognition (R)
so my wife can Google my face and track my walk home on the Internet
from storecams and wearable video feeds. Expect it by 2007.

Oh, and I'm working on a new markup language, "HEML", or Human
Experience Markup Language, the language that makes everyone a witness
by automatically tagging streaming real-time wearable video feeds for
human experiences: emotions like anger or fear, what it's like to be
robbed or to ride a roller coaster or to be homeless or trapped in a
Humvee in Iraq, states like sleepwalking or drug addiction or
weightlessness or imprisonment, images like your kid in class at school
or your girlfriend cheating on you in real time. Integrated with Google
satellite GPS of course.

You're on the project with me.

- Thom