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In 10 Years, Every Human Connected To the Internet Will Have a Timeline
Presto Vivace writes: O'Reilly Radar has an article about how ubiquitous tracking and collection of data will fundamentally change how we live. Quoting: "This timeline — beginning for newborns at Year Zero — will be so intrinsic to life that it will quickly be taken for granted. Those without a timeline will be at a huge disadvantage. Those with a good one will have the tricks of a modern mentalist: perfect recall, suggestions for how to curry favor, ease maintaining friendships and influencing strangers, unthinkably higher Dunbar numbers — now, every interaction has a history. This isn’t just about lifelogging health data, like your Fitbit or Jawbone. It isn’t about financial data, like Mint. It isn’t just your social graph or photo feed. It isn’t about commuting data like Waze or Maps. It’s about all of these, together, along with the tools and user interfaces and agents to make sense of it."
Great, so now the breakup of my ex-girlfriend from years is going to be used by others when judging my worth in relationships, or maybe health data. Or finance. Data is beautiful, but it can be really evil. Deeds will no longer be forgotten at some point; we'll be the sum of all of our decisions on the inside *and now* the outside for everyone to see.
Those without a timeline will be at a huge advantage
There, fixed that for you. If influencing strangers is named as an advantage, I strongly disagree. Strangers more likely influence anyone with a publicly available profile. Remaining anonymous gets more important every day.
Nae king! Nae laird! Nae yurrupiean pressedent! We willna be fooled again!
Those without a timeline will be at a huge disadvantage.
you told me the same thing about google plus, facebook, myspace, twitter, instagram, youtube, vine, secondlife, and tumblr. I seem to have suffered no loss in "advantage" though. Let me put it in your terms, maybe that will help. #GETOFFMYLAWN.
Good people go to bed earlier.
For now the big 3 credit reporting agencies can't even make a decent snapshot of what I *am* now, never mind any past history.
I am constantly surprised by incorrect addresses, wrong phones, misspelled names and other such junk (mostly because data entry clerks elsewhere can't be bothered to enter data right, or poorly designed "business systems" don't handle it properly).
My driver license from one state was not properly canceled, when I moved and obtained license in another - so for a while, unknowingly, I had two parallel driver licenses and separate records (even though presumably states share that information).
The only place where information about me seems to resemble anything like reality is my own linkedin profile, and that's because I care to keep it correct.
That's not to say there isn't a ton of information on each and every one of us, and the amount keeps growing. However, most of that information is of poor quality, and not organized - something I wouldn't expect to change anytime soon. The only danger I see is that new generation is conditioned to maintain their own timeline and do the information-cleaning job for the big corporations and government for free. So, let's wait and see, shall we.
Sometimes people forget the importance of Not Being Seen .
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
Obligatory viewing: Black Mirror's The Entire History of You .
This is not a technology problem. It is a human nature problems. A vast majority of people right now are more then willing to look the other way and understand that you do different things when you were younger. I see the problem is once the media gets involved or there is a ground swell publishing the incident or you are in a "group", people as individuals are afraid to admit they willing to look the other way because they themselves do not want to become the subject of the scrutiny. People are afraid to look the other way publicly because another group with an agenda might make a big deal about it. This happens now with teenagers in real life. Ask any girl what she thinks about some boy or another girl or some topic. As a group of girls what they think about the same and you will probably get a totally different response.
When I was in junior high, a friend of mine got caught pleasing himself by some other friends peeking in his window. Word of that got out. Being his friend, I got to see both sides of what happened after. Close friends never said anything mean to him directly and really nothing changed, they all joked about it and it was forgotten and never mentioned again. Those same friends though when he was not around would laugh and tell stories, the subject came up all the time, "Hey, there's spanky". Statistically, most of those boys also pleasured themselves but they did not get caught doing it.
Opinions of individuals in crowds are not true opinions. Good and bad.
I have strong opinions about homosexuality, race, color, creed, bullying, and many others but I would NEVER tell them exactly as they are to a large crowd for general public consumption. Society changes and although many of my feelings probably follow mainstream, they may not later and my true opinions on those things are also subject to and often change over time as well as I see and experience more things. I don't want my current views on things to be cemented to a post I made in December 14th, 2003 in a forum post.