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[garyb]

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/technology/7 ... microchips

[nightscope]

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[kensuguro]

Michael G Michael from the University of Wollongong's School of Information Systems and Technology, has coined the term "uberveillance" to describe the emerging trend of all-encompassing surveillance.

The first paragraph says it all. Michael G Michael, who needed to pull a PR stunt got press coverage through a friend of a friend at nine msn. Michael and his friend probably has dinner every few weeks (a business contact).. Michael is most likely not the one that has all the connection, but his friend does. So his friend keeps an antenna out, and in this case, it ended up as coverage from ninemsn. If it was the other way around, meaning, if people were writing about something else, and Michael's name came in the process, his name wouldn't have been in the opening paragraph.

Press is always good to shift political power right before grant season, and also to give general updrift for conferences. Good press coverage makes papers harder to bash, can't be a bad thing. I suppose some projects have PR people get stories like this.

It's sort of like a sales pitch. With these academic dudes, the more extreme the claim, the better it sells. Just like a sales pitch. Don't say 400k unique users a month, say 1.5 million users a month. Bigger claims, more attention, hustle it some more. This is the part where he's workin' it, by making big claims:

"This black box will then be a witness to our actual movements, words — perhaps even our thoughts —-and play a similar role to the black box placed in an aircraft," he said.

I would have said people would get Google implanted into their brains so that Google could help them think. Google is a much better alternative than a brain because all most people do is straight up memory recall anyway. Need a new idea? Google an old one, repurpose it, repackage it, and you've got a new product. bam.

[garyb]

dead on Ken. enjoy it. you are from the last generation to experience anything related to reality, and even then, it was only your childhood. indeed, a sales pitch...

[siriusbliss]

RFID chips as small as 1mm square already exist.

WOOF!

[nightscope]

Google is a much better alternative than a brain because all most people do is straight up memory recall anyway. Need a new idea? Google an old one, repurpose it, repackage it, and you've got a new product. bam.

Indeed. Google is breeding an entire populace of experts. Only problem is that expertise is not based on personal experience but on a ten second search. Very prevalent in the music production sector. Take my flippant binary answer to Gary's original post. I don't know binary from Jack and never will. All courtesy of some online converter that teaches one nothing. On the other hand the search engines do allow those who have what they consider to be an original idea to get a very rough idea if anyone else has been thinking along the same lines. I find this good for songwriting, especially lyrics and titles. If I get an idea I do a pretty good search and if I find any duplication I almost always scrap mine.

ns

[valis]

Indeed. Google is breeding an entire populace of experts. Only problem is that expertise is not based on personal experience but on a ten second search. Very prevalent in the music production sector. Take my flippant binary answer to Gary's original post. I don't know binary from Jack and never will. All courtesy of some online converter that teaches one nothing. On the other hand the search engines do allow those who have what they consider to be an original idea to get a very rough idea if anyone else has been thinking along the same lines. I find this good for songwriting, especially lyrics and titles. If I get an idea I do a pretty good search and if I find any duplication I almost always scrap mine.

ns

So essentially you're saying I spend too much time reading all that I do, fiddling with my own gear, keeping up with the industry, reading music & tech forums etc...?

[nightscope]

So essentially you're saying I spend too much time reading all that I do, fiddling with my own gear, keeping up with the industry, reading music & tech forums etc...?

Well, if the shoe fits!!

No, I jest. You always stick to the issue rather than waffling off into dreamland. I actually read and "keep up" with a lot more than I need. What I essentially need hasn't changed in forty years. Paper, pencil, and a clear head. Internet is great for getting precise technical information quickly. That's about it for me; a few good laughs.

ns