Ahhh, it seems impossible to escape detection, the ever present devices gleaning what they can, all of it in my case mundane, of no importance to anyone, not even to me most of the time, but that doesn't mean it's not bad. I cover the cameras on my computer and iPad. God, I hate these devices more and more everyday but cannot find the will to do without them. How else would I know about Mark Bisone? I refuse to have a Ring or an Alexa or any other extraneous spy beyond the 3 I allow in my space. Good God! My devices have my digital fingerprint, but honestly, I can't summon the energy or interest to protect myself. One could never rest. Is this how it will end?
I don't think it will end that way. We just need to figure out better ways to use (and not use) it. I think we're actually doing that now, simply by finding each other and talking about it. They are collecting a trillion-trillion bits of data about us, true. How much of it is actionable against us? We may find out someday. But until then, we can be secure in the knowledge that evil has a nasty habit of devouring itself. The competence level of this crowd is plummeting, too. They're not as limber either, and they lack the trust to use their powers as fully as they otherwise might.
Stay strong, keep your eyes peeled and be joyful. Their time is coming, and so is ours.
Indeed Humdeedee, it's virtually impossible to escape surveillance completely. Especially once you consider if you actually do avoid it completely, when you once hadn't, it will attract more purposeful surveillance. I find it funny though. I bet you if you have told a spook from the 1950's that in the future people would willingly pay to have bugs planted on them at all times they'd have you committed to an asylum.
Yes. The Eye of Sauron sees long and wide, and those who wear the One Ring of invisibility mark themselves even more clearly. And yet... the Fellowship prevails, "hiding" in plain sight. Food for thought, from the banquet feast that is Tolkien.
I hadn't thought about your observation that were I to successfully go dark, assuming that were possible, the focus on my mundane existence might really intensify, but that makes sense. We need a full body Faraday aura, eh?
I suppose one could allow ones face and voice to become ubiquitous, so that any manipulation would be obviously incongruent, but then that does not seem very desirable either.
When you wake up to the world, you begin to see it through a different lens, not unlike They Live, you see the machinations.
Possibly the worst digital voice I've heard is at Sky Harbor airport. The enunciation is creepy, and elongates vowels. Just enough uncanny valley to make you uncomfortable as it chimes in every ten minutes to remind you not to leave your bags unattended.
I got a very similar dystopic feeling when travelling through JFK. I was waiting in a long ass line at Dunkin Donuts to get some coffee when I realized that the customers weren't ordering with a person, but at a kiosk. So... Detached. Firstly it's inefficient as hell. I wanted black coffee with one sugar. Normally this would be "medium hot dark roast, one sugar please", but instead I had to navigate like six menus of options.
For one coffee. Then I had to do it again for my wife's coffee.
But the worst part was just the cold detachment of it all. I had just returned from Spain and had become accustomed to walking to the bakery in the morning to get fresh bread and a cup of coffee, greeted by the warm (and cute) Spanish girl who managed the bakery. The limited conversation we'd have with my terrible Spanish was imbued with more humanity than any interaction I had in JFK; where every single employee working there was "diverse" and looked and acted like they were better suited to slinging rock on the street.
So this is our future. We will interface with machines and have our orders made by thuggish wage slaves who will serve your food and drink with a sneer. It's only going to get worse.
Remember what they said. We will own nothing and be happy, but there are some of us who will prefer to live outside this society (that danish woman's word, not mine).
Ahhh, it seems impossible to escape detection, the ever present devices gleaning what they can, all of it in my case mundane, of no importance to anyone, not even to me most of the time, but that doesn't mean it's not bad. I cover the cameras on my computer and iPad. God, I hate these devices more and more everyday but cannot find the will to do without them. How else would I know about Mark Bisone? I refuse to have a Ring or an Alexa or any other extraneous spy beyond the 3 I allow in my space. Good God! My devices have my digital fingerprint, but honestly, I can't summon the energy or interest to protect myself. One could never rest. Is this how it will end?
I don't think it will end that way. We just need to figure out better ways to use (and not use) it. I think we're actually doing that now, simply by finding each other and talking about it. They are collecting a trillion-trillion bits of data about us, true. How much of it is actionable against us? We may find out someday. But until then, we can be secure in the knowledge that evil has a nasty habit of devouring itself. The competence level of this crowd is plummeting, too. They're not as limber either, and they lack the trust to use their powers as fully as they otherwise might.
Stay strong, keep your eyes peeled and be joyful. Their time is coming, and so is ours.
Indeed Humdeedee, it's virtually impossible to escape surveillance completely. Especially once you consider if you actually do avoid it completely, when you once hadn't, it will attract more purposeful surveillance. I find it funny though. I bet you if you have told a spook from the 1950's that in the future people would willingly pay to have bugs planted on them at all times they'd have you committed to an asylum.
Yes. The Eye of Sauron sees long and wide, and those who wear the One Ring of invisibility mark themselves even more clearly. And yet... the Fellowship prevails, "hiding" in plain sight. Food for thought, from the banquet feast that is Tolkien.
I hadn't thought about your observation that were I to successfully go dark, assuming that were possible, the focus on my mundane existence might really intensify, but that makes sense. We need a full body Faraday aura, eh?
I suppose one could allow ones face and voice to become ubiquitous, so that any manipulation would be obviously incongruent, but then that does not seem very desirable either.
When you wake up to the world, you begin to see it through a different lens, not unlike They Live, you see the machinations.
Possibly the worst digital voice I've heard is at Sky Harbor airport. The enunciation is creepy, and elongates vowels. Just enough uncanny valley to make you uncomfortable as it chimes in every ten minutes to remind you not to leave your bags unattended.
I got a very similar dystopic feeling when travelling through JFK. I was waiting in a long ass line at Dunkin Donuts to get some coffee when I realized that the customers weren't ordering with a person, but at a kiosk. So... Detached. Firstly it's inefficient as hell. I wanted black coffee with one sugar. Normally this would be "medium hot dark roast, one sugar please", but instead I had to navigate like six menus of options.
For one coffee. Then I had to do it again for my wife's coffee.
But the worst part was just the cold detachment of it all. I had just returned from Spain and had become accustomed to walking to the bakery in the morning to get fresh bread and a cup of coffee, greeted by the warm (and cute) Spanish girl who managed the bakery. The limited conversation we'd have with my terrible Spanish was imbued with more humanity than any interaction I had in JFK; where every single employee working there was "diverse" and looked and acted like they were better suited to slinging rock on the street.
So this is our future. We will interface with machines and have our orders made by thuggish wage slaves who will serve your food and drink with a sneer. It's only going to get worse.
Remember what they said. We will own nothing and be happy, but there are some of us who will prefer to live outside this society (that danish woman's word, not mine).