Will Science and Technology Kill America as We Know It?

[Procrustes Stretched]

Will Science and Technology Kill America as We Know It?

I don't do alarmist crap well, but this is something I believe will happen. People and companies and organizations will use these tools to dumb people further down.

It was inevitable we would see Brave New World and not 1984

I believe web 2.0 was the start of a slippery slope where Social Media has people primed for the next great thing. Sure people are getting sick of Facebook, but they have been primed to get the chemical elation from the web in place of drugs, exercise, face to face meetings....wait! What am
i doing here?

The NationBuilder tools allow campaign teams to categorize and search their potential voters and campaign contributors by age, geography and voting history -- then further tag people based on events they attend, how they know the candidate, issues they care about, etc.

Once cataloged, a "nation's" detailed, searchable catalog of information can also be exported to help other like-minded local candidates. NationBuilder, a Downtown L.A. Startup, Explodes onto Scene in Los Angeles Mayoral, City Council 2013 Elections - Los Angeles - News - The Informer

 

[ScienceRocks]

I'd like robots doing everything
Farming
Moving food around
bringing me a drink

lol

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

peep

 

[TNHarley]

I have often said that technology is why we are the way we are at this point in time. It has escalated people being alarmed(climate change, killings etc), people are getting lazier, racism etc

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

I have often said that technology is why we are the way we are at this point in time. It has escalated people being alarmed(climate change, killings etc), people are getting lazier, racism etc

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[Nika2013]

The more frightening aspect of technology is "total control" as the Department of Defense has stated as its goal: to control all aspects of the electromagnetic spectrum. This means a direct link to cell-phones, computers, televisions, the Internet and even Wifi in kitchen appliances. In fact, the last director of the CIA stated in a speech that by 2030...all household appliances will be sending data to the government. (I will try to post the links) It is my belief that this is already happening in some areas. Should the US military have the legal right to access computers around the world? I think not. That was what the Stuxnet Trojan was about that attacked Iran's nuclear facilities...

It is truly an Orwellian world and for those who have not read 1984, it is the future...if we do not stop it, now.

Here it is: Wired Magazine

CIA Chief: We’ll Spy on You Through Your Dishwasher
• By Spencer Ackerman
• 03.15.12
• 5:35 PM
•

CIA Director David Petraeus unwinds with some Wii Golf, 2008. Photo: Wikimedia
More and more personal and household devices are connecting to the internet, from your television to your car navigation systems to your light switches. CIA Director David Petraeus cannot wait to spy on you through them.
Earlier this month, Petraeus mused about the emergence of an “Internet of Things” — that is, wired devices — at a summit for In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capital firm. “‘Transformational’ is an overused word, but I do believe it properly applies to these technologies,” Petraeus enthused, “particularly to their effect on clandestine tradecraft.”
All those new online devices are a treasure trove of data if you’re a “person of interest” to the spy community. Once upon a time, spies had to place a bug in your chandelier to hear your conversation. With the rise of the “smart home,” you’d be sending tagged, geolocated data that a spy agency can intercept in real time when you use the lighting app on your phone to adjust your living room’s ambiance.
“Items of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio-frequency identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy harvesters — all connected to the next-generation internet using abundant, low-cost, and high-power computing,” Petraeus said, “the latter now going to cloud computing, in many areas greater and greater supercomputing, and, ultimately, heading to quantum computing.”
Petraeus allowed that these household spy devices “change our notions of secrecy” and prompt a rethink of “our notions of identity and secrecy.” All of which is true — if convenient for a CIA director.
The CIA has a lot of legal restrictions against spying on American citizens. But collecting ambient geolocation data from devices is a grayer area, especially after the 2008 carve-outs to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Hardware manufacturers, it turns out, store a trove of geolocation data; and some legislators have grown alarmed at how easy it is for the government to track you through your phone or PlayStation.
That’s not the only data exploit intriguing Petraeus. He’s interested in creating new online identities for his undercover spies — and sweeping away the “digital footprints” of agents who suddenly need to vanish.
“Proud parents document the arrival and growth of their future CIA officer in all forms of social media that the world can access for decades to come,” Petraeus observed. “Moreover, we have to figure out how to create the digital footprint for new identities for some officers.”
It’s hard to argue with that. Online cache is not a spy’s friend. But Petraeus has an inadvertent pal in Facebook.
Why? With the arrival of Timeline, Facebook made it super-easy to backdate your online history. Barack Obama, for instance, hasn’t been on Facebook since his birth in 1961. Creating new identities for CIA non-official cover operatives has arguably never been easier. Thank Zuck, spies. Thank Zuck.
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As for me...I think I will move to the country and only use this type of technology when I go to town.

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

thanks

 

[Unkotare]

Will Science and Technology Kill America as We Know It?

I don't do alarmist crap well, but this is something I believe will happen.

Because you're an idiot.

 

[Nika2013]

He is not an idiot...read the article about the CIA Director...I love it when people give a non-informed opinion....

 

[Unkotare]

He is not an idiot.......

Of course he is. Read all his posts.