tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post7418124372894958609..comments2024-03-24T11:01:27.668-04:00Comments on Resource Insights: Do you own your own face?Kurt Cobbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05330759091950742285noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-2613477751863079932020-12-28T16:05:14.155-05:002020-12-28T16:05:14.155-05:00https://blog.xray.fm/2020/07/08/details-of-portlan...https://blog.xray.fm/2020/07/08/details-of-portlands-landmark-facial-recognition-ban-unveiled/<br /><br />https://blog.xray.fm/2020/09/22/store-says-portlands-facial-recognition-ban-could-drive-it-to-shut-doors-overnight/Aaron Cnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-61892979907930978062020-10-26T14:19:05.390-04:002020-10-26T14:19:05.390-04:00"if you aren't doing anything wrong then ..."if you aren't doing anything wrong then you don't have anything to worry about"<br /><br />Who decides what is 'wrong'??!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-64642213330880231042020-10-25T11:23:29.171-04:002020-10-25T11:23:29.171-04:00I read about Facial recognition and other such tec...I read about Facial recognition and other such technologies and think that we are unleashing forces we cannot control and that will ultimately take us away from anything that might be considered a “natural” state of existence and being for the homo sapiens animal. The human brain is more cognitively limited than people suppose. <br /><br />The science fiction novel “Dune” by Frank Herbert is set in the far future, after a cataclysmic event called the Butlerian Jihad, “a crusade by the last free humans in the universe against the thinking machines...” It’s a version of the AI wakes up and does bad things story. In this Dune history, all computers and computer like machines are subsequently banned, giving context to the Dune novel itself, where the human galactic order is a kind of feudal system, technologies are limited to those not reliant on computers, and it is human abilities that are accelerated through genetic manipulation and drugs. <br /><br />I assume the most likely actual future of the human race is one of fossil fuel energy descent and a return to some kind of feudalism, or other older less technology intensive life. But perhaps there is an alternate version where some portion of humanity will be able to keep the electricity production going for many years. Those people might continue the profit motivated drive to towards a “better life” with computer and other technology that takes some humans even further away from their agricultural and/or hunter gathering environment. <br /><br />Ultimately I think Frank Herbert's vision will prove prescient, and we will ban the use of many technologies, in order to live sanely, and safely. But before that, some of us are going to walk around with chips in our heads plugged into the matrix. <br />Shawn Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11133575785476157598noreply@blogger.com