>>1370084
if she has to beg for it, it exists.
if it exists, other people have it.
this isn't about whether or not the data is known (as a given, it is) or used (as a given, it is) or even secure (as a given, it is - for a price).
it's about dropping that veil, and dealing with it.
when i was born, data collection was not automated, but you can bet that organized intelligence kept lists. want to know something about someone, let's pull out the file.
that's what the JFK data dump taught us.
there were efforts back then - documents were shoddy, record keeping sucked - but as an effort, it existed.
what do we do, as humans? we perfect, we refine, we sharpen our edges and build machines to help us build machines.
the tools got better, and the information stores got larger.
then we hit another wall - we can collect data, we can store data, and we can even recall data - but how do we analyze data? how do we use what we know?
computers have helped every step of the way. larger drives, more dense storage, faster memory - all stepping stones in the effort to know humans, know what we're doing, keep track of us.
information wants to be free - tough shit for us.
we can either live behind the 'muh privacy' shroud, and let ourselves be exploited, or bring everyone out of the cave and try to deal with 'this is who we are, now let's try to be good to each other'.
this is the singularity BEFORE the singularity.