Comments on: Big Cousin http://www.realityprime.com/articles/big-cousin Advanced Technology Research Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:20:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ira http://www.realityprime.com/articles/big-cousin/comment-page-1#comment-13192 Ira Sat, 03 Jan 2009 13:34:33 +0000 http://www.realityprime.com/?p=281#comment-13192 Anonymity is a product of the mobility of mass society. In the olden days people lived their entire lives in small villages where everyone knew everybody else's business and there was no real privacy outside the four walls of their homes. Anonymity has a price: increased social isolation, illegal immigration, scams, crime and now terrorism. Avi, you have hit on the next evolutionary step - small-town lack of anonymity will be reinvented. Responsible companies like Google and Microsoft and others will catalog and organize what you call "your daily path and activities" - all the computer records and videos you leave as you access the internet and use your cellphone and credit cards. Your records should be available free to you and for a fee to others. You should get a cut of the fees and an alert identifying the organization or person who has targetted your information. Anonymity is a product of the mobility of mass society. In the olden days people lived their entire lives in small villages where everyone knew everybody else’s business and there was no real privacy outside the four walls of their homes. Anonymity has a price: increased social isolation, illegal immigration, scams, crime and now terrorism.

Avi, you have hit on the next evolutionary step – small-town lack of anonymity will be reinvented. Responsible companies like Google and Microsoft and others will catalog and organize what you call “your daily path and activities” – all the computer records and videos you leave as you access the internet and use your cellphone and credit cards.

Your records should be available free to you and for a fee to others. You should get a cut of the fees and an alert identifying the organization or person who has targetted your information.

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