Every action we take leaves a trail of information that could, in principle, be recorded and stored for future use.
For instance, one might use the older forms of information technologies of pen and paper and keep a detailed diary listing all the things one did and thought during the day.
It might be a daunting task to record all this information this way but there are a growing list of technologies and software applications that can help us collect all manner of data, which in principle, and in practice, can be aggregated together for use in building a data profile about you, a digital diary with millions of entries.
Some examples of which might be: a detailed listing of all of your economic transactions;
a GPS generated plot of where you traveled;
a list of all the web addresses you visited and the details of each search you initiated online;
a listing of all your vital signs such as blood pressure and heart rate; and wait for it wha is coming; your dietary intakes for the day; and any other kind of data that can be measured.
And you thought Big Brother belonged to the 1984 (book) and imaginings of George Orwell,
As free speech is surpressed more and more in our PC world we could be entering a dsytopian
nightmare.
For instance, one might use the older forms of information technologies of pen and paper and keep a detailed diary listing all the things one did and thought during the day.
It might be a daunting task to record all this information this way but there are a growing list of technologies and software applications that can help us collect all manner of data, which in principle, and in practice, can be aggregated together for use in building a data profile about you, a digital diary with millions of entries.
Some examples of which might be: a detailed listing of all of your economic transactions;
a GPS generated plot of where you traveled;
a list of all the web addresses you visited and the details of each search you initiated online;
a listing of all your vital signs such as blood pressure and heart rate; and wait for it wha is coming; your dietary intakes for the day; and any other kind of data that can be measured.
And you thought Big Brother belonged to the 1984 (book) and imaginings of George Orwell,
As free speech is surpressed more and more in our PC world we could be entering a dsytopian
nightmare.
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