Utubiquity

I had a dream. I woke up. It's 22:03. I think, I was in China in my dream. It's the same dream I had over the weekend. People were valking around with little devices. Recording reality. Broadcasting reality. A blind man was walking around, seeing. With this device. He had no eyes. We were losing control though. China, or I think it was rather BigCorps combined, were taking away our power to record and registrate what was going on. The blind man was giving up and appeared in whatever was TV and had given up the idea of seeing. While dreaming, I thought this was a dream about the future. But, this is happening now. It's 2007. New York City wants blocking normal people from taking pictures and recording videos. It's 2007, and apart from the loony artists and eletronic frontiermen, nobody cares. Do you? It's 2007, and our storage capacity is increasing and increasing. It'll be hard to find a phone without 8 GB soon. Do you think security companies are actuallying recycling their storage? Do you think governments are? They might, might have policies in place, and might follow them. But not in China for sure. And not in Googolia, Amazonia, or Yahoo. But why still care? I know some of you do, but I think it's better instead, to march along, no, run in front of them, and be there first! Right at the frontier. Storing our experiences to the max, giving them away to anyone who slightly cares. Privacy is a dream from the past. This is the age of Utubiquity is now. Let's free our phones, our dishwashers and cars, and equip all of them. Let's make the blind see, not thru gEyes or iSee, but with OpenEyes. I sure as hell know that whenever silicon enters my flesh it oughta be free and open. This should be the age of Communal Creativity. Done right there's nothing to fear. And I turn on the light at 22:24.

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"I sure as hell know that

"I sure as hell know that whenever silicon
enters my flesh it oughta be free and open."

This sentence-- or more accurately, this image-- scares me.

kia ora! at least your links

kia ora!

at least your links to 'Communal Creativity' and 'Done right' are broken.

i was arrested after having taken pictures at a protest last year in Wellington and then the cops stole my camera (out of a car while i was at the cop shop where they took my details). now these silly bastards are trying to use these pictures in court which is unlawful without my consent. what i wanted to say: NZ is the same regime as USA. :)

sometimes i also fancy the idea of letting go of all privacy, because state and corporations will get hold of all relevant data anyway, unless the people will be quick enough to smash these institutions. so why not devaluate the garnered information. but then, i am kind of a digial hermit, otaku, and also not, who feels uneasy about being extrovert. at the moment, i can only see this as an act of defense, not as a merit or something to strive for.

Feeling the need for privacy

Feeling the need for privacy is a symptom of the affliction of self-importance.

Feeling the need for complete abandonment of privacy may be a symptom of exhibitionism and / or hopelessness.

There might be too much useless data out there. Modern Media are fleeting.

Paper in many ways is safer.

Create data in the moment. Use brain for storage of knowledge.

Difficult issues.

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