Tuesday's Blog...TODAY!
(Monday) I was walking a shopping mall in Knoxville with Mum when we came to the area where a certain internationally-known retailer of women's undergarments and related apparel was located. As we approached another woman, wearing a t-shirt with the name of one of their set of shops walked going the other direction and I had a science-fiction moment.
Remember the scene in MINORITY REPORT when Tom Cruise's character is in the clothier and the store knows him on sight? Well, I had a more insidious concept then and there. What if subliminal devices outside a store were rigged so if you looked at somebody you saw them wearing an advertisement for that store? Of course, the other person might not be aware of being in the advertising business. With THAT thought I checked and made sure I was still wearing a USF shirt!
The night after, I had a may-or-may-not-be-related dream that in my mail, I got a little pamphlet that an Artificial Intelligence had generated. What it had done was trace my entire existance that it could find in public records and over the Internet, and with that data had made a syllogistic examination of who I was. There was a lot on information that was new to me and it all made sense.
I have this weird feeling that some companies already have this capability to so microscopify a person's reality with such accuracy, but are keeping the technology a secret. Governments would not have it, or else they'd be rounding up all the world's terrorists and criminals with it at the forefront of their efforts.
Remember the scene in MINORITY REPORT when Tom Cruise's character is in the clothier and the store knows him on sight? Well, I had a more insidious concept then and there. What if subliminal devices outside a store were rigged so if you looked at somebody you saw them wearing an advertisement for that store? Of course, the other person might not be aware of being in the advertising business. With THAT thought I checked and made sure I was still wearing a USF shirt!
The night after, I had a may-or-may-not-be-related dream that in my mail, I got a little pamphlet that an Artificial Intelligence had generated. What it had done was trace my entire existance that it could find in public records and over the Internet, and with that data had made a syllogistic examination of who I was. There was a lot on information that was new to me and it all made sense.
I have this weird feeling that some companies already have this capability to so microscopify a person's reality with such accuracy, but are keeping the technology a secret. Governments would not have it, or else they'd be rounding up all the world's terrorists and criminals with it at the forefront of their efforts.