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0 pointseveningcoffee9y ago0 comments

The future is what we make it to be. All technology does not work inside a vacuum, it works in the society and society is made up by contracts, most importantly it is made up by laws and the laws are made, at least in democracy by elected representatives.

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curried_haskell9y ago· 2 in thread

The future is what we, as a whole, collectively, 7 billion people, make it to be.

Unfortunately I think the writing is already on the wall. We've moving towards a world where everyone will be recording everything all the time. Soon my glasses will be recording everything I see all the time and you won't even know it. The advantages of being able to replay things you saw, record conversations, record accidents and incidents with police, record controversial things at work, are all too great.

People are already doing this with dashcams in their cars.

We're moving into a world where privacy will simply become impossible.

eveningcoffeeOP9y ago

Personally I do not think that the recording is a problem by itself. Problem is with who this recording is shared.

calgoo9y ago

Exactly, I would love to have real valid AR glasses where we can add metadata to everyday life. If it could be built without the posiblity to take a photo it would be better, but you would loose half of the functions and people would not use it, cause whats the use of a camera if you cant take photos or video. Also with the IoT stuff coming online, it looks more and more like these AR devices wont matter in regards to private as everything will be recording everything anyway.

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astazangasta9y ago· 2 in thread

I was with you until "society is made up by contracts", and you lost me entirely with laws. Most of society exists outside the ambit of either law or contract.

calgoo9y ago

Well, we do have a lot of social contracts. Thats basically how we function as a society.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_contract

eveningcoffeeOP9y ago

Indeed, as society we can make certain behaviour unlawful regardless of technical possibilities. We can imprison and isolate people from the society who act against such laws. We just have to make our minds clear what these laws should be.

My only concern is that non state level organized actors can get large advantage over the society using these laws.

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curried_haskell9y ago· 2 in thread

The future is what we, as a whole, collectively, 7 billion people, make it to be.

People are already doing this with dashcams in their cars.

We're moving into a world where privacy will simply become impossible.

eveningcoffeeOP9y ago

Personally I do not think that the recording is a problem by itself. Problem is with who this recording is shared.

calgoo9y ago

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astazangasta9y ago· 2 in thread

I was with you until "society is made up by contracts", and you lost me entirely with laws. Most of society exists outside the ambit of either law or contract.

calgoo9y ago

Well, we do have a lot of social contracts. Thats basically how we function as a society.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_contract

eveningcoffeeOP9y ago

My only concern is that non state level organized actors can get large advantage over the society using these laws.

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