In a world where there are no secrets and no privacy, will people try to behave better or just act like animals and say “everybody does it”?
No.
Sure it is. We just need to be willing to [verb removed to avoid suspension] the people who are monitoring us...
Oh great, now the Mrs will no longer have to rely on telepathy to know what you’re thinking or have bought for CHRISTmas.
The advertising hoardings and mannequins will snitch on you.
The more we rely and worship technology the more our lives will be oppressed.
A big problem for those who are concerned about privacy and want to keep government small is that preventing this type of tech being used would require making government larger and more powerful.
Too much more of this, and I’ll be about ready to go ‘off grid’. That isn’t very easy to do either.
Those of us that own property of any size and wish to go off grid, just how do we handle property taxes? Most counties are delighted to possess the property, sell it at “auction” to a well connected member of the local ‘good ol’ boy network’, and use the proceeds to pay your tax bill for you. Property taxes and what Imminent Domain has become have made home/land ownership into a joke. Their rulings regarding Imminent Domain and 0bamacare were two of the worst rulings by the Supreme Court during my lifetime.
Take your off grid refuge to a State or National park? You’ll probably wake up one morning, staring down the barrel of an MP5 and surrounded by a park police SWAT team that just love to get all dressed up to hunt down and exterminate people like you....
bfl
You can nullify the system by using a ‘dumb phone’ and paying in cash.
I recall reading a scifi book decades ago in which one of the characters, upon competing his business in the head, is confronted, as the toilet gurgles away, with a message in a display built into the lavatory mirror, advising him to cut back on potassium-rich food and notifying him that he had been scheduled for an appointment with the urologybot in the ship’s medical unit for that afternoon.
The scary thing is, that type of scenario is not too farfetched with today’s technology. Scary, but at the same time cheering. Imagine your toilet analyzing bodily waste, making dietary recommendations, prescribing meds, etc. (but also notifying your doctor, and maybe the government and employer?).
bkmk
"I for one, welcome our new alien overlords."
-Kent Brockman
Didn’t IBM collaborate with the Nazis, providing technology that “made the trains run more efficiently?”