Some Tech Stuff

The first article is Gizmodo - There’s Not an App for That: When Will Our Smartphones Be Recognized as Valid Forms of ID? An interesting perspective from a young person. What do you think, should your phone be a valid form of identification? How would you verify that it was that particular person's phone? You could if biometrics were added to your phone and I have written about that recently.

The second article is from the Activist Post - Facial Recognition Goes Trendy with SceneTap's Biometric Barhopping App. I recommend you read the whole article; but, what is says is that facial recognition technology will be used at bars in San Francisco and it will allow you to know information (limited for the moment) regarding other people.

We also have this from WZZM - Facial Recognition Software Unveiled in Grand Rapids. Watch the video. It is about how restaurants and other businesses are using facial recognition software to help you make choices by tailoring them to you. Do you really want to live in a world where your choices are made for you, mistakes can help us to learn more than always getting what you want.

In the future, well actually now, you will be scanned, analyzed and presented with the options that a computer thinks you want and you won't even know it. Google does it for you already, it presumes what you would be the most interested in when you do a search using it. This type of information filtering will only lead to people learning less as they are not presented with information that they would dislike.

The future is here and it doesn't believe in privacy. About a billion people on Facebook, one seventh of the world and supposedly we live in a world of six degrees of separation. This is why things can go "viral", a video made of a baby laughing can be seen by most of the world within minutes. A single thought can be communicated to the whole world in a moment. Those are game changers and we don't know exactly it will effect the future. For my money, if the anti-Christ were to show up, he would definitely use the internet to spread his message. Just imagine what the world would be like if Hitler had been on the internet.