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OHHHHKAYYYYYY…
That's amazing and incredible and…spooky?
NAAAH!
As soon as the satellites began orbiting earth, I was expecting this.
I really don't care who knows where I live.
C'MON IN!
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This is what concerns me.
On one hand, we're living in an age of complete inter-related exposure, everything's open, nobody cares about their own or anyone else's secrets, everything's forgiven, everyone's humble, everybody's free .... it's just like the Kingdom of Heaven, everyone's interrelated, no-one's alone, Puck encircles the globe, Hermes links us all.
But THAT ONLY WORKS IN A PERFECT WORLD ... did I say the Kingdom of Heaven?
On the other hand, there's something terrifyingly dangerous about all this: everyone being always accessible everywhere to everyone.
If you criticise this, as the poster above did, who bemoaned that this should not be the default setting, AND HE'S RIGHT, then you're a Luddite, a Jeremiah, a reactionary, regressive, a crank, a grump, a conspiracy theorist. But until very recently, young people in particular would have been the very FIRST to be concerned about the rights and abuses of this, and its dangers. Now they just smile naively.
What's annoying is that the tech people who design these systems, and the damned marketers just assume ARROGANTLY that everyone will of course be happy to expose their underwear drawer to the universe, why wouldn't they? Being boundariless themselves and perhaps with the unimaginativeness of the naively privileged, they assume everyone is like them ... pants down and freewheeling. You have to link Google, and Facebook, and Twitter, and the net, and Paypal and .... no-one sees the obvious dangers. And it's marketed in such a way that we're told it'll add to security! No matter what the algorithms, the passwords, the scramblers, the idea that all the targets are in one place AND THEREFORE SAFE, is just stupid.
Look at it this way: as a computer expert and scientist I know said recently, 'If it's illegal to do something, then someone has worked out that it can be done, otherwise why make it illegal?' You don't make invisibility cloaks or time machines illegal because they don't exist ... yet.
These geeks think narcissistically that because THEY enjoy fiddling about all day with computer settings, then the general punter who buys their wares will surely enjoy it too.
The shift has gone from safety to the default assumption that things are safe and everyone everywhere must surely want to be exposed to the world. It's actually insane.
All it'll take will be one Mr. Klaatu and the world will collapse.
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Then some insane person ...... found out exactly where they lived and came to your house to do who knows what?
Now .... what am I doing next weekend? ...... I wonder if there are any bucket flights to Norway left ..... a strange plan is forming ....
No, I must resist ....
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I can see why Thor has that point of view. Personally I do not care, why? Because there are so many people on Facebook, why target me.
And yet it does happen to people. (Just not to you yet.)
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