Comments on: Surveillance, Identity, and Meaning (part 1): Big Brother(s, Big Sisters) http://www.reclusland.com/compass/2009/01/16/big-brothers-big-sisters/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:46:45 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Ian http://www.reclusland.com/compass/2009/01/16/big-brothers-big-sisters/comment-page-1/#comment-340 Ian Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:23:52 +0000 http://www.reclusland.com/compass/?p=767#comment-340 I'd love to say that machines will do the recording, and people will do the surveillance, but as face recognition algorithms a stuff like that start coming up, I doubt less and less that people will have much to do with it. And thrown in <a href="http://grinding.be/2009/01/23/killer-robots-to-get-silent-running-whisper-mode/" rel="nofollow">killer robots</a> that attack people based on their "threat recognition algorithms" and we've got big trouble. We'll have created our own predators... Anyway, thanks for the link. Will read over that later! I’d love to say that machines will do the recording, and people will do the surveillance, but as face recognition algorithms a stuff like that start coming up, I doubt less and less that people will have much to do with it. And thrown in killer robots that attack people based on their “threat recognition algorithms” and we’ve got big trouble. We’ll have created our own predators…

Anyway, thanks for the link. Will read over that later!

]]> By: speedbird http://www.reclusland.com/compass/2009/01/16/big-brothers-big-sisters/comment-page-1/#comment-338 speedbird Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:36:11 +0000 http://www.reclusland.com/compass/?p=767#comment-338 Interesting take. A (long) link you might find interesting: http://home.fnal.gov/~annis/digirati/otherVoices/Lyon.html The question I have with ubiquitous surveillance is this: is it to be done by people, or by machines (which are not people, but which /represent/ them)? Interesting take. A (long) link you might find interesting:

http://home.fnal.gov/~annis/digirati/otherVoices/Lyon.html

The question I have with ubiquitous surveillance is this: is it to be done by people, or by machines (which are not people, but which /represent/ them)?

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