TECHNOLOGICAL SHORT SIGHTEDNESS
The outrage shown by actors over
digital actors (or
synthespians
as they are now known) in such films as
Shrek and Final Fantasy
only goes to show their ignorance of what is to come (also see
Simone). This also shows that if some of
these so-called well-informed and semi educated rich people can get angry about
these simple creations, then the masses may react in an even worse way, if the
next generation of A.I. systems, start making an impact in their job sector or
more importantly their wallets. And once Hollywood realises that it doesn't have
to pay millions for real actors because
Digital Doubles
can be re-faced and do an even better job than their expensive, unreliable and
moody film star counterparts, then maybe actors will have to find a new career.
Especially when you hear rumours, that directors like George Lucas, wouldn't
have minded having no actors in his movies at all, just
digital
recreations. So it looks like the all
digital Hulk or at least his programmers may have a better future, than most
actors. It will never happen, I hear JLO fans cry, but go ask the silent movie
stars, who didn't make it in the talkies?
Remember modern epics don't need hundreds or thousands of
extras,
a little CG can now fill in the gabs.
On the short sighted front, then I find it really funny when
I see adverts for broadband, followed by news of movie and software companies
screaming blue murder about online piracy, what did they think the masses where
going to do, with all that extra bandwidth? It's the capitalist ideology gone
mad, media moguls making billions, want you to get fibre optic into your home,
but, then only want you to use it, to buy more of their services. There is
another way to look at piracy, if Gates is willing to charge up to £150 for
Windows XP home edition in the UK, then the question is, has this man / company,
actually put in enough real work, to merit being paid billions of the backs of
the people, who have in effect had to do real work, so as to pay for it. Just
remember, capitalism is not a bad system, except when it is being corrupted?
Piracy is also killing the music industry or so I hear, the
question once again has got to be, does some no nothing teenager, have the right
to put out a record, make a bundle and then retire early. Why should we support
a system that say's that's ok. I think piracy is in some small way, a form of
anti-capitalism, in other words, we aren't going to work, just to keep making
these types of people richer,
so we will pirate your stuff, until you also have to do some
minimum wage job,
just like most of us. I know, the
kids don't make anything, its the record companies and producers,
also if these people are so worried about piracy, then how come most of them are
rich?
Then you read and see adverts saying that
piracy hurts the little people in the
movie industry, they even spend millions on advertising saying it's wrong,
whilst paying actors like Arnold Schwarzenegger a reputed 30 million+ dollars to
do T3. Here's an idea Arnie,
take a pay cut and then go and feed some of the little people? The movie
industry may soon face an even bigger piracy problem, as storage, cameras and
the web are all continually upgraded, then the average kid, could have the
equivalent of a multi-media server in their pocket. I can imagine pirates and
kids going to the cinema and then streaming movies direct over the net, to their
friends and colleagues. This is the future, companies will sell you hardware
that will be capable of storing terabytes of data, with HDTV resolution cameras
onboard and tons of bandwidth,
then ask you not to copy anything illegal. This is about to get very
silly, we need to turn away
from the capitalist ideology and seek some new ways for us all to benefit and
prosper from this technologies introduction. Otherwise we may start
locking people up, for all the wrong reasons and a new society will be born
into a technological nightmare, rather than utilizing this technology, to help
bring about a better society. I'm not the only one who thinks like this, some
judges and courts are also wising up to the fact, that locking people up for
having a pirate copy of a song etc on their IPOD, is stupid. This may one day be
seen, as a fundamental and philosophical change in how society deals with the
introduction of certain new technologies, i.e. for the good of us all, rather
than the few.
Wouldn't it be funny if they do change the law, about non-US
citizens being able to run for presidency.
This could become a self fulfilling prophecy or as this ebook
keeps pointing out, a society run by machines, with
president
Terminator himself, in charge of us all. Mind you, he has got to be better
than the alternative or maybe not.
Just remember, Arnie, is from the same country that gave us
Adolph, but I don't suppose we can't hold that against him?
He won California over, I keep thinking, how dumb can politics
get and have the voters even watched
pumping iron.
It feels like I'm coming all the time?
As the oracle said - what do all men with power want - more
power?
Imagine if he does become President, imagine world leaders
having to take this man seriously, in anything, other than in a physical sense?
FUTURE AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY, WITH ARNIE IN CHARGE, DID
ANYBODY SEE COLLATERAL DAMAGE, LET'S TAKE OUT ALL THE TERRORISTS, HANG ON, SORRY
THAT'S CURRENT US POLICY.
JUST REMEMBER, ONE COUNTRY'S TERRORIST, IS ANOTHER COUNTRIES
HERO?
HE SAID HE WILL NOT MAKE ANOTHER MOVIE, SHAME I WAS LOOKING
FORWARD TO DR.STRANGELOVE PART 2
OR
SHOULD I SAY
HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE A.I. ?
SURVEILLANCE
The public is now buying on mass portable net appliances
equipped with MMS (Multi Media
Messaging Service), in other words,
camera equipped smartphones
etc. Plus devices equipped with
GPS
/ 3G /
4G /
W-CDMA /
GPRS etc, which are
connected to always on networks, this means that the public are now becoming
willing participants in a surveillance state.
The
powers that be are probably laughing their socks off, I mean after all these
years of having to divert taxpayers hard earned cash into paying for
surveillance, here the public go and do it for them. Always
on networks connected to millions of always on
CCD cameras,
whilst using facial recognition software, God criminals will have to find a new
career and so will most of the police force, for that
matter. After the terrorist attacks globally, New York,
London etc, then the
public will be easy to convince that this is a good thing. The big problem with
this type of surveillance society is more long term, it could ultimately induce
a form of paranoia
within society that is not healthy. Interpol
is also unifying its efforts
to defeat global terrorism by allowing instant communications between all police
databases worldwide?
Its strange to think, that in the near future there could be
networks out there
recording
everything we do, our
data shadows will be able to deliver very accurate profiling and on
everybody. It's already happening (see the
patriot act), but this is nothing compared to what is about to happen. So
forget the
RIP
act, smart networks gathering targeted marketing data will mean that there
will be no hiding place from every junk email marketer on the planet. Anyway do
you remember in the old days, when people used to say things like, "where are
you from", Liverpool, London, New York etc, followed by, "oh, by any chance do
you know, John, Ste or whoever, lives down Kelsey street or 1st Avenue", etc. In
the near future, smart networks could know each and everyone of us,
personally, (very
Minority Report also checkout
RFID,
the latest technology the public have become
paranoid over..
Compared to
what
is to come, then the public obviously have no real clue as to where this is
all leading.
The networks and smart devices of the future, may have a
much greater situational awareness than any of us,
just imagine all these new mobile web cams built into phones etc, all feeding
back real time images into smart A.I. controlled networks. It will be like
having, a couple of million
eyes all watching
and feeding back into the great machine. Of course it is all part of the
move towards Mobile
Commerce, this is were people will no longer carry money, they will just
have a mobile device,
which will transmit both their location and payment, to any local services or
goods required etc. New online digital ID systems such as Microsofts
.NET passport
system and systems using the
Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
show how the masses could be tracked and manipulated into becoming part of this
corporate / state run society. Go to a bar, pay for a couple of drinks, it could
all be recorded and in many ways, do it too much and not only will your bank
know, but your employer may also find out?
Camera equipped mobile devices,
M-commerce + real-time tracking of everybody, bloody great, hype, hype, hype,
sell, sell, sell, the human race is just so bloody stupid, the bigger picture is
just terrifying, once you can truly see it. This is also why the
powers that be, want
everybody to get a bank account and join the cashless society, the black market
dies and then only the
real criminals,
i.e. the corporations and the rich, can truly make any money on the
side?
Imagine the future, when we can all get independent TV
reports via the net, it may lead to some cool reports, imagine this, today the
C.E.O. of some company paid
himself 230 million
dollars, oh yeah and some poor people died, because they couldn't afford
some basic medicine. I wonder if the watchers will eventually become the
watched, as we all tune into the truth?
Another curious thing will be when friends and family
separated by distance can communicate via video links and in real-time, this is bound to
be a growth sector and will undoubtedly surpass text messaging. I just wonder
how the industry will capitalise on this, and whether the authorities will
monitor this traffic as well. Oh well, if they get smart A.I.
systems to monitor all this traffic and they can implement their net plans
globally, then at least it should hinder the people and organisations into
asymmetric warfare?
Anyway I recently watched a TV program that showed a computer
program that was capable of reading
micro expressions;
you know those little tell tale signs that give away when you’re lying.
Apparently it’s being employed by some government agencies for their own
purposes. So what happens if you employ this software in conjunction with an MNN
type system? Let’s see now, everybody is hooked up to
the web via their new net devices and everybody is using web cams, so if
employed in the right way or the wrong way, then these government agencies and
A.I. systems could ask you a question over the web, and then tell if you’re
lying, spooky! Imagine people could use advanced realistic avatars and convince
you that you where talking to a friend, when in fact you could be talking to an
advanced A.I. interrogator, these could be used by all a sundry and for many
purposes, its the spyware
of the future.
Some
insurers are now using lie detector technology in their call centers, if you
try to make a false claim, then the software can tell, even if the human in the
loop can't pick up on it. Now of course the machines can even interpret body movement,
I think its time to start worrying (1984 style,) big brother really is watching. Oh well I
suppose we could always use it in business deals or even better on our friends
or partners, maybe lawyers could use it in court or on clients. Imagine a
politician making a speech or in a debate and everybody has downloaded a copy of
the latest lie detector software, all installed and ready to run on their brand
new, grid equipped mobile phone and with the results and reactions being fed
back in to the great, online public opinion poll, instant democracy, God where
will it all end?
As I said this technology will affect everyone.
Was WMD an excuse or a lie, in the future we may all know,
after all as the bible say's:-
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you
free.?
The always on networks could be watching us all the time and possibly learning
from us all the time, be scared,
total
surveillance is coming soon. I heard a startling statistic the other
day, not sure if it's true, but I heard that there is now 1 surveillance camera
for every 14 UK citizens?
The military have their own version of big brother, it's
called combat zones
which could be adapted for use in civilian surveillance. Although this could
lead to a smaller police force, it may also in essence lead to more
unemployment, adding to the chain reaction scenario. But for now, we have the
google desktop?
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Carnivore /
Echelon
Transport Secretary Alistair Darling has confirmed the
government is looking at introducing a
pay-as-you-drive system of road tax, with satellite tracking being
Whitehall's preferred way of monitoring the motoring habits of the UK
TECHNOLOGICAL SHORT SIGHTEDNESS &
SURVEILLANCE