depends whether your culture is bankrupt and evil I guess. Maybe your right, we should assume the worst these days, guilty until proven innocent. On the other hand game theory says we treat others as they treat us.
See film Rollerball from 1975 for the next compulsory business activity. Corporations behave inhumanly and indecently because the employees have no say in how they are run.
And if this is all true it is why entrepreneurial China is going to walk all over the West in the years to come because they have the will to win at all costs because they are hungry. They may already be in a position to dictate the rules of the game now. If it suits them they may join the corporate joke that the patent system appears to be, but it looks to be a few years off yet. Only when they not only make but design everything the rest of the world buys will it happen. Meanwhile the less bureaucracy they have to bow to the better for their growth rate.
I dont know whether anyone else has noticed it but half of the people in a business these days are there to ensure that rules and regulations are followed. No wonder we cannot compete. It wouldnt be so bad if the monitoring and reporting was designed to create a whole greater than the sum of the parts but most of it just creates more roles for people to monitor and complain about the information. None of it leads to the diversion of resources to address the problems the information reveals.
Western organizational skills have hit a brick wall and are failing. Just look at the British health service - the largest employer in Europe. Its income has doubled in the last ten years under the socialist government and it is now in a funding crisis with only moderate improvements in health care outcome. Personal responsibility is at an all time low, most people hate their work because they have no input into what they do or how. Its no surprise that the only innovation coming out of large corporations is either skunkworks or acquisitions.
These moves by Microsoft to sue open source are merely a symptom of an organization of human affairs that is bankrupt and doomed to the trashcan of history. Just like the removal of welfare actually increases the number of better paid jobs we should realize that its often the bandage applied to fix a problem that is worse than the problem itself. A patent system that encourages a gigantic industry of paranoid legal activity is probably worse than the frenzied competition that a lighter system of ownership of ideas would encourage. It would certainly promote efficiency and raise the bar on customer service if these became more important than whether your investment in your legal team was bigger than the oppositions.
Efficiency is the watchword of the coming century with the belated recognition that unconstrained growth is finally getting to the point where global ecology is threatened. Unless we all want to sit in unheated shacks lit by guttering candles we have to learn how to do more with less. Heavy handed patent systems grown in the heady days of infinite growth and malleable markets are history as people will come to realize over the coming decades.
Well said. The modern corporation is entirely focused on shareholder value - often to the detriment of the product or service that they provide to customers. One way of maximizing shareholder value is to fool the customers by means of market monopoly or destroying competitors so that profit margins can be increased without customer resistance. The other thing that suffers is the workforce who become freely tradeable commodities to be manipulated and discarded as necessary.
The only place you get treated like a human being is in a small startup where you may also get to share in the fruits of your labors and you have value because of your own monopoly position. Of course you may not want to pay the price of this much responsibility which generally means long hours. Still its better working long hours where you have some influence over your own life. The startup is also usually more interested in its customers than its own internal processes which is very refreshing.
As for what to do after IT the answer is anything you like - just be aware that life is shit if you don't have any money at all. Though its equally true that not all of us need new cars every year and the majority of things sold to us in our consumer paradise are things we have been told we need and are priced according to what we can be conned into paying. I don't miss television or ready made meals for example.
Now there is no Soviet Union to demonise there is no longer a mirror to see our own faults in. The USA and most of the Western World has become very much like the old Soviet Union, this arbitrary censorship of Wikipedia is a blatant example of this.
Interestingly we are also well on our way to becoming like our other 'enemies', currently the suicide bombing Muslim religious theocracies. Its questionable whether our religious right will be taking away the right to education and implementing other oppressions on atheists as Muslims do on religious minorities (e.g. the Bahá'í in Egypt). But it is quite possible that this is the way things will go, perhaps the ills of religious theocracies are no different from our own societies. We certainly cant spend them into submission like we did the Soviet Union, because they have the Oil.
No one has a monopoly on truth or sanity or success forever, you can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time - but not both. Any society has a balance between the greatest good for all and the oppression of minorities. The most worrying thing about the erosion of privacy in the West is that no one will be able to hide through obscurity any more. So if the state decides to target you, then you are doomed. This will inevitably give rise to suicidal fanaticism, doomed people have nothing to loose and could well feature in spectacular fashion on future news broadcasts.
The inheritors of the banner of sanity and moral authority in the coming century may be the Indians or the Chinese. We are currently in a golden age with only one super power that thinks it has the right to moral authority and sanity. However the USA only holds its current position because of its wealth, which will be gone by the middle of the century. Either because China will be richer or because the Oil wars will have destroyed the US economy. It will be a very different world where the Chinese are just as likely as the US to annex Saudi Arabia or Iran for the oil.
One wonders whether free speech or moral stances will have any meaning at all in that world. A pragmatic nationalism may be all that is left as opposing states nuclear weapons orbit, sparkling though our night skies.
I notice that all the commercial music video clips I have bookmarked are still up after the take down. This may have something to do with the fact that they are of artists from before 1990 and in many cases not known globally. Discovering or re-discovering this material tempts me to look for more of it in current published content - where I wont find it except in low quality DRM encumbered form.
So yes Youtube is a video archive and no the owners of the content haven't a clue how to make money out of it.
It also suggests that the valuable content that has just been taken down is in general of no value to me. Because I have purchased what I value and don't think the rest of it was worth looking at - even for free. The music business has always been focused on creating material for 13 year olds. At the tediously ancient age of 47 I am distressed to find that for the last decade, pop music for 13 year olds consists of depressing black consumerist rap music packaged for its white audience. Which doesn't compare favorably with my favorite UK 16 year olds music, punk music (think Sex Pistols) and awesome doom-laden cold war music (think Pink Floyd). Thank Bob the dance music scene is still going after 20 years and D&B, house, trance et-al can still throw up some great pop music otherwise there would only be blues music left to listen to.
Mind you theres tons of great world music out there in somebody else's language, but theres not much of that on Youtube yet, only on Shoutcast, and I doubt that I can buy it in the UK.
Good point, I bought an off board USB to audio box permanently wired into a spare input on my sound system. This was to save the headphone socket on my laptop with its 8Gb of mp3, wireless Shoutcast et al. The noise floor is lower and the bass response is better on the off board USB converter.
The laptop has a cheap 3.5mm audio socket which from grim experience I know will wear out after a couple of years of constant use with a variety of different plugs. I would rather save the audio headphone output for true light weight mobile use with headphones/earbuds and battery powered speakers.
As an aside to all those bemoaning the high cost of good sound systems - you can save $$ by building your own speakers - buy a kit that will sound better than something that would cost twice as much ready built from a store.
What they may have discovered is that 'messy' people in some cases seem to operate a low overhead filing system that looks untidy to an outside observer. Their definition of a filing system is obviously too limited.
It was a great technical success. They had a problem with the first stage being 0.1% below measured limit. So they recycled and the first stage worked perfectly, then the separation worked perfectly, then the shroud ejection worked, then the second stage fired and worked perfectly. Then something put oscillations into the system and it lost the plot. So what are you worried about? - They have to figure out what went wrong after most of the dynamically tricky bits went right? The problem isn't with the really tricky bits with atmosphere and gravity. So they have to learn a bit more and avoid a problem at 161km, based on the performance up to that point I don't think that will stop them. Always assuming there is enough cash to test out the fix.
Thanks to them for sharing this inspirational effort I say. A good team with a shared goal can do wonderful things. I salute their efforts and wish them luck.
I am sure it fell to bits - but as a totaly random punt I would suspect the shroud ejection didn't push far enough out and the casing struck the side. Didn't I see crystallized material in the camera view after shroud ejection - surely at 161km there isn't enough gas around to do that - that was fuel leaking and freezing ?
I am not a rocket scientist so I had better wait for them to tell us what happened. Whatever did happen I am sure they have the smarts to fix it. Pity all this costs so much money, it flew fantastically up to the oscillations. Where do I buy shares:-)
looks like it went into oscillattion after sucessfull stage separation and shroud ejection - the second stage ran for some time before this happened. then abrupt telemetry loss. bummer.
Yes they have a good set of procedures for getting this thing off the ground. Any big system can only be tested for real, no matter how good all the individual bits are.
Seems the zeitgeist of the SUV is truly on the wane if your observation has much of a following.
I think that forthcoming tax setting budget in the UK might go some way towards satisfying the anti SUV agenda. It is widely rumored that the annual tax on such vehicles might double overnight this year.
The EU has already committed to only allow vehicles to be sold after 2012 which emmit less than 120g per mile. At a guess less than 20% of current vehicles meet this target. This compressed air engine system has a very encouraging regulatory environment in front of it in the EU.
If it works as advertised it also has a fantastic opportunity in those countries which are seeing a much greater growth in personal transportation use than those that already have gigantic vested interests in established oil based infrastructure. This is a very promising vehicle technology.
Keep your fingers crossed for the bird flue - if its as good as its hyped up to be then we dont have to worry about global warming cause its going to halve the population overnight!
Failing that we could start making a virtue out of efficiency, this is also known as increasing your return on investment. Why it is that we collectively think its a great idea to burn fossil fuel in shitty inefficient engines for example completely escapes me. In Europe we now have cars like the Focus built by Ford with sophisticated diesel engines that carry 5 adults at 120Mph, do 0-60 in under 10 seconds and make 50Mpg. Why do folk buy 20Mpg SUV to ferry the kids to school in the city. Do they randomly throw money out of their wallets on to the sidewalk? No they do not, so why the car thing? It must be a lifestyle choice like gangsta rap and smoking crack cocaine, something everybody does for a while until a generation comes along and rebels against the insanity of the norm and everything changes.
Prof Rosling gives an entertaining lecture and casually explains the state of the world today with a few animated visualization tools - fabulous stuff. His personal mission seems to be to enable the connection of masses of statistics available all over the world to his neat visualization tool set to help the world 'see'. That is to help anyone who is interested study numerical data from public domain databases be they entrepreneurs or academics. Rock on tommy!
Google gets its slice of the action because they can give it to their own staff to look at their own business. They also get a lot of kudos for the public service of giving us more meaningful access to numbers as well as the text on the internet.
The visualization tool isn't a trivial piece of work, it may not take much horsepower to implement these days but the methodology of displaying sets of three axis data on a single page is quite simply brilliant. You can put your copy of Minitab where the sun don't shine as far as I am concerned, what we need are better ways of developing hypothesis - finding the right questions - not a better test of statistical significance. Theres no point having a great way of working out the answer if we haven't got a clue what the question is.
You can tell that I am jumping up and down with excitement having seen this. Well its made my day, I cant wait to play with the results - and to ask our programmers at work if they can knock up a graphing tool to display my business data in the same way. (I bet they cant easily - if there are any of you out there who think this whole thing is trivial)
Not everyone has a driving license. Even a SSN is not the same as an id card. Everyone will have an id card - and you will carry it at all times and be expected to produce it before entering any building or using any transport - at least I will be voting for you to do these things as soon as I know that it can be done.
Just think! anybody caught without a card must be a terrorist or at least a criminal of some kind and we can put them straight into concentration camps! brilliant! Illegal immigrants and minor criminals off the street in less than a year! Don't know what your going to do with all these millions of non-citizens. Oh hang on I have an idea - you could issue them with second class cards marked with a yellow star or something, once you had found out exactly what sort of non-citizen they are.
Has anybody really thought through what you are going to do with all the people you catch who wont have a real id card? Its certainly going to be a great job creation scheme locking them all up and processing them. Maybe thats the great economic miracle of this century - everybody will be employed running the United States Prison.
I'm all for it mind you, and I want everything to be stored on video - and available for the police to review if they suspect you of a crime. We almost have the technology to do it, so why not do it. After all if you are happy having a metal tag in your ear whats wrong with your every moment being recorded on video. After all the police are only going to look at it if they suspect you of committing a crime.
By the way if you happen to be a rich criminal or terrorist who needs a fake id or your life video editing - then for a very large sum of money I can fix it for you.
If you happen to be Joe public with no money then you had better hope you never run a red light - because I'm selling a data mining program to the government that looks through every bodies life video & flags it up to the police. Its ok it doesn't tell them how many people you have slept with or even what sex they are - thats in the medical data mining program that will stamp out STD's - Permanently! Just think of the social good we can do with this technology, no more pedophiles or gun crime, no underage drinking, no drug taking - it will be fantastic!
I am not paranoid. I am looking forward to the technological means to create paradise on Earth. If you have any concerns about that paradise you had better start thinking about it now, because its coming in your life time and not mine. I am old enough to avoid it, but I'm betting that you arn't.
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depends whether your culture is bankrupt and evil I guess. Maybe your right, we should assume the worst these days, guilty until proven innocent. On the other hand game theory says we treat others as they treat us.
See film Rollerball from 1975 for the next compulsory business activity. Corporations behave inhumanly and indecently because the employees have no say in how they are run.
And if this is all true it is why entrepreneurial China is going to walk all over the West in the years to come because they have the will to win at all costs because they are hungry. They may already be in a position to dictate the rules of the game now. If it suits them they may join the corporate joke that the patent system appears to be, but it looks to be a few years off yet. Only when they not only make but design everything the rest of the world buys will it happen. Meanwhile the less bureaucracy they have to bow to the better for their growth rate.
I dont know whether anyone else has noticed it but half of the people in a business these days are there to ensure that rules and regulations are followed. No wonder we cannot compete. It wouldnt be so bad if the monitoring and reporting was designed to create a whole greater than the sum of the parts but most of it just creates more roles for people to monitor and complain about the information. None of it leads to the diversion of resources to address the problems the information reveals.
Western organizational skills have hit a brick wall and are failing. Just look at the British health service - the largest employer in Europe. Its income has doubled in the last ten years under the socialist government and it is now in a funding crisis with only moderate improvements in health care outcome. Personal responsibility is at an all time low, most people hate their work because they have no input into what they do or how. Its no surprise that the only innovation coming out of large corporations is either skunkworks or acquisitions.
These moves by Microsoft to sue open source are merely a symptom of an organization of human affairs that is bankrupt and doomed to the trashcan of history. Just like the removal of welfare actually increases the number of better paid jobs we should realize that its often the bandage applied to fix a problem that is worse than the problem itself. A patent system that encourages a gigantic industry of paranoid legal activity is probably worse than the frenzied competition that a lighter system of ownership of ideas would encourage. It would certainly promote efficiency and raise the bar on customer service if these became more important than whether your investment in your legal team was bigger than the oppositions.
Efficiency is the watchword of the coming century with the belated recognition that unconstrained growth is finally getting to the point where global ecology is threatened. Unless we all want to sit in unheated shacks lit by guttering candles we have to learn how to do more with less. Heavy handed patent systems grown in the heady days of infinite growth and malleable markets are history as people will come to realize over the coming decades.
Well said. The modern corporation is entirely focused on shareholder value - often to the detriment of the product or service that they provide to customers. One way of maximizing shareholder value is to fool the customers by means of market monopoly or destroying competitors so that profit margins can be increased without customer resistance. The other thing that suffers is the workforce who become freely tradeable commodities to be manipulated and discarded as necessary.
The only place you get treated like a human being is in a small startup where you may also get to share in the fruits of your labors and you have value because of your own monopoly position. Of course you may not want to pay the price of this much responsibility which generally means long hours. Still its better working long hours where you have some influence over your own life. The startup is also usually more interested in its customers than its own internal processes which is very refreshing.
As for what to do after IT the answer is anything you like - just be aware that life is shit if you don't have any money at all. Though its equally true that not all of us need new cars every year and the majority of things sold to us in our consumer paradise are things we have been told we need and are priced according to what we can be conned into paying. I don't miss television or ready made meals for example.
Orthogonal polarization of radio signals to increase the bandwidth works very well in the data transmission business that I work in.
Now there is no Soviet Union to demonise there is no longer a mirror to see our own faults in. The USA and most of the Western World has become very much like the old Soviet Union, this arbitrary censorship of Wikipedia is a blatant example of this.
Interestingly we are also well on our way to becoming like our other 'enemies', currently the suicide bombing Muslim religious theocracies. Its questionable whether our religious right will be taking away the right to education and implementing other oppressions on atheists as Muslims do on religious minorities (e.g. the Bahá'í in Egypt). But it is quite possible that this is the way things will go, perhaps the ills of religious theocracies are no different from our own societies. We certainly cant spend them into submission like we did the Soviet Union, because they have the Oil.
No one has a monopoly on truth or sanity or success forever, you can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time - but not both. Any society has a balance between the greatest good for all and the oppression of minorities. The most worrying thing about the erosion of privacy in the West is that no one will be able to hide through obscurity any more. So if the state decides to target you, then you are doomed. This will inevitably give rise to suicidal fanaticism, doomed people have nothing to loose and could well feature in spectacular fashion on future news broadcasts.
The inheritors of the banner of sanity and moral authority in the coming century may be the Indians or the Chinese. We are currently in a golden age with only one super power that thinks it has the right to moral authority and sanity. However the USA only holds its current position because of its wealth, which will be gone by the middle of the century. Either because China will be richer or because the Oil wars will have destroyed the US economy. It will be a very different world where the Chinese are just as likely as the US to annex Saudi Arabia or Iran for the oil.
One wonders whether free speech or moral stances will have any meaning at all in that world. A pragmatic nationalism may be all that is left as opposing states nuclear weapons orbit, sparkling though our night skies.
I notice that all the commercial music video clips I have bookmarked are still up after the take down. This may have something to do with the fact that they are of artists from before 1990 and in many cases not known globally. Discovering or re-discovering this material tempts me to look for more of it in current published content - where I wont find it except in low quality DRM encumbered form.
So yes Youtube is a video archive and no the owners of the content haven't a clue how to make money out of it.
It also suggests that the valuable content that has just been taken down is in general of no value to me. Because I have purchased what I value and don't think the rest of it was worth looking at - even for free. The music business has always been focused on creating material for 13 year olds. At the tediously ancient age of 47 I am distressed to find that for the last decade, pop music for 13 year olds consists of depressing black consumerist rap music packaged for its white audience. Which doesn't compare favorably with my favorite UK 16 year olds music, punk music (think Sex Pistols) and awesome doom-laden cold war music (think Pink Floyd). Thank Bob the dance music scene is still going after 20 years and D&B, house, trance et-al can still throw up some great pop music otherwise there would only be blues music left to listen to.
Mind you theres tons of great world music out there in somebody else's language, but theres not much of that on Youtube yet, only on Shoutcast, and I doubt that I can buy it in the UK.
Good point, I bought an off board USB to audio box permanently wired into a spare input on my sound system. This was to save the headphone socket on my laptop with its 8Gb of mp3, wireless Shoutcast et al. The noise floor is lower and the bass response is better on the off board USB converter.
The laptop has a cheap 3.5mm audio socket which from grim experience I know will wear out after a couple of years of constant use with a variety of different plugs. I would rather save the audio headphone output for true light weight mobile use with headphones/earbuds and battery powered speakers.
As an aside to all those bemoaning the high cost of good sound systems - you can save $$ by building your own speakers - buy a kit that will sound better than something that would cost twice as much ready built from a store.
http://www.madisound.com/kits.html
or in the UK
https://secure.wilmslow-audio.co.uk/catalog/
and
http://www.iplacoustics.co.uk/
What they may have discovered is that 'messy' people in some cases seem to operate a low overhead filing system that looks untidy to an outside observer. Their definition of a filing system is obviously too limited.
It was a great technical success. They had a problem with the first stage being 0.1% below measured limit. So they recycled and the first stage worked perfectly, then the separation worked perfectly, then the shroud ejection worked, then the second stage fired and worked perfectly. Then something put oscillations into the system and it lost the plot. So what are you worried about? - They have to figure out what went wrong after most of the dynamically tricky bits went right? The problem isn't with the really tricky bits with atmosphere and gravity. So they have to learn a bit more and avoid a problem at 161km, based on the performance up to that point I don't think that will stop them. Always assuming there is enough cash to test out the fix.
Thanks to them for sharing this inspirational effort I say. A good team with a shared goal can do wonderful things. I salute their efforts and wish them luck.
I am sure it fell to bits - but as a totaly random punt I would suspect the shroud ejection didn't push far enough out and the casing struck the side. Didn't I see crystallized material in the camera view after shroud ejection - surely at 161km there isn't enough gas around to do that - that was fuel leaking and freezing ?
:-)
I am not a rocket scientist so I had better wait for them to tell us what happened. Whatever did happen I am sure they have the smarts to fix it. Pity all this costs so much money, it flew fantastically up to the oscillations. Where do I buy shares
looks like it went into oscillattion after sucessfull stage separation and shroud ejection - the second stage ran for some time before this happened. then abrupt telemetry loss. bummer.
I have a very large malt whiskey for when it does go. though I might have tested a couple already!
Yes they have a good set of procedures for getting this thing off the ground. Any big system can only be tested for real, no matter how good all the individual bits are.
sounds like t-11 starts from 0054
they are going for a recycle to t-11 at 0028
internal abort after ignition... locking down again.
whoah here we go again....
Seems the zeitgeist of the SUV is truly on the wane if your observation has much of a following.
I think that forthcoming tax setting budget in the UK might go some way towards satisfying the anti SUV agenda. It is widely rumored that the annual tax on such vehicles might double overnight this year.
The EU has already committed to only allow vehicles to be sold after 2012 which emmit less than 120g per mile. At a guess less than 20% of current vehicles meet this target. This compressed air engine system has a very encouraging regulatory environment in front of it in the EU.
If it works as advertised it also has a fantastic opportunity in those countries which are seeing a much greater growth in personal transportation use than those that already have gigantic vested interests in established oil based infrastructure. This is a very promising vehicle technology.
Keep your fingers crossed for the bird flue - if its as good as its hyped up to be then we dont have to worry about global warming cause its going to halve the population overnight!
Failing that we could start making a virtue out of efficiency, this is also known as increasing your return on investment. Why it is that we collectively think its a great idea to burn fossil fuel in shitty inefficient engines for example completely escapes me. In Europe we now have cars like the Focus built by Ford with sophisticated diesel engines that carry 5 adults at 120Mph, do 0-60 in under 10 seconds and make 50Mpg. Why do folk buy 20Mpg SUV to ferry the kids to school in the city. Do they randomly throw money out of their wallets on to the sidewalk? No they do not, so why the car thing? It must be a lifestyle choice like gangsta rap and smoking crack cocaine, something everybody does for a while until a generation comes along and rebels against the insanity of the norm and everything changes.
Helium top started.. this is fun!
good luck
Excellent video.
Prof Rosling gives an entertaining lecture and casually explains the state of the world today with a few animated visualization tools - fabulous stuff. His personal mission seems to be to enable the connection of masses of statistics available all over the world to his neat visualization tool set to help the world 'see'. That is to help anyone who is interested study numerical data from public domain databases be they entrepreneurs or academics. Rock on tommy!
Google gets its slice of the action because they can give it to their own staff to look at their own business. They also get a lot of kudos for the public service of giving us more meaningful access to numbers as well as the text on the internet.
The visualization tool isn't a trivial piece of work, it may not take much horsepower to implement these days but the methodology of displaying sets of three axis data on a single page is quite simply brilliant. You can put your copy of Minitab where the sun don't shine as far as I am concerned, what we need are better ways of developing hypothesis - finding the right questions - not a better test of statistical significance. Theres no point having a great way of working out the answer if we haven't got a clue what the question is.
You can tell that I am jumping up and down with excitement having seen this. Well its made my day, I cant wait to play with the results - and to ask our programmers at work if they can knock up a graphing tool to display my business data in the same way. (I bet they cant easily - if there are any of you out there who think this whole thing is trivial)
Unplug the gps and install the tweaked version registered to a politician if they have any sense...
Not everyone has a driving license. Even a SSN is not the same as an id card. Everyone will have an id card - and you will carry it at all times and be expected to produce it before entering any building or using any transport - at least I will be voting for you to do these things as soon as I know that it can be done.
Just think! anybody caught without a card must be a terrorist or at least a criminal of some kind and we can put them straight into concentration camps! brilliant! Illegal immigrants and minor criminals off the street in less than a year! Don't know what your going to do with all these millions of non-citizens. Oh hang on I have an idea - you could issue them with second class cards marked with a yellow star or something, once you had found out exactly what sort of non-citizen they are.
Has anybody really thought through what you are going to do with all the people you catch who wont have a real id card? Its certainly going to be a great job creation scheme locking them all up and processing them. Maybe thats the great economic miracle of this century - everybody will be employed running the United States Prison.
I'm all for it mind you, and I want everything to be stored on video - and available for the police to review if they suspect you of a crime. We almost have the technology to do it, so why not do it. After all if you are happy having a metal tag in your ear whats wrong with your every moment being recorded on video. After all the police are only going to look at it if they suspect you of committing a crime.
By the way if you happen to be a rich criminal or terrorist who needs a fake id or your life video editing - then for a very large sum of money I can fix it for you.
If you happen to be Joe public with no money then you had better hope you never run a red light - because I'm selling a data mining program to the government that looks through every bodies life video & flags it up to the police. Its ok it doesn't tell them how many people you have slept with or even what sex they are - thats in the medical data mining program that will stamp out STD's - Permanently! Just think of the social good we can do with this technology, no more pedophiles or gun crime, no underage drinking, no drug taking - it will be fantastic!
I am not paranoid. I am looking forward to the technological means to create paradise on Earth. If you have any concerns about that paradise you had better start thinking about it now, because its coming in your life time and not mine. I am old enough to avoid it, but I'm betting that you arn't.
and even further back "who shot JFK" !!!
This would mean the end of crime, a new age of humanity.
Of course to make it work everybody would have to be running one.
So a flat battery would lead to an automatic death penalty.
Still what you lose on the swings, you gain on the roundabouts.