You Ain't SEEN Nuthin' yet...

[Foxer55]

Of all the dislikes we discuss here at FL, the ideas about what the new age has to offer are replete with creepy things. But here is something that will really creep you out.

Google Glasses: New App Allows Strangers to ID You Just by Looking at You



"A new app will allow total strangers to ID you and pull up all your information, just by looking at you and scanning your face with their Google Glass. The app is called NameTag and it sounds CREEPY.

The "real-time facial recognition" software "can detect a face using the Google Glass camera, send it wirelessly to a server, compare it to millions of records, and in seconds return a match complete with a name, additional photos and social media profiles.

The information listed could include your name, occupation, any social media profiles you have set up and whether or not you have a criminal record ("CRIMINAL HISTORY FOUND" pops up in bright red letters according to the demo)."

Read it all here:

http://www.eonline.com/news/507361/...ws-strangers-to-id-you-just-by-looking-at-you

 

[Stanley Doble]

For the rest of us, it would be like living in a small town where everyone knows all about you and your family for 3 or 4 generations.

I think the wearer would get sick of it pretty quick too.

 

[sheeplady]

A couple of student bloggers for the school I graduated from received a "google glass" in the rollout. All of them found them neat but annoying. I think all of them have abandoned their google glasses.

While I understand that this is a minority opinion, I believe that if a person has committed a crime, been convicted, and served their sentence; they have "paid" for their crime (particularly in non-violent crimes, such as drugs, stealing, etc.). If they want to make an honest attempt to reintegrate into society, they should be given the chance without their record following them everywhere they go. This worries me that people who have served their sentence and have been reformed will have their crime follow them forever even in benign situations.

It also worries me because this application will not make clear the difference between a serious threatening crime and someone who served less than a year on a minor drug charge or for non-violent stealing. I think I'd rather not wonder what the person did to end up in prison. Also, it is not clear if it would even delineate between "prison-worthy" crimes and other crimes.

 

[Nobert]

Does anyone actually wear Google glasses, in real life? If I saw someone on the street with such a contraption strapped to their face I would view them as I do those people who ride their bikes around with their pet boa constrictors draped around their necks.

 

[LizzieMaine]

For the rest of us, it would be like living in a small town where everyone knows all about you and your family for 3 or 4 generations.
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As far as I'm concerned, I already know everything I want to know about the people I want to know anything about.

Does anyone actually wear Google glasses, in real life? If I saw someone on the street with such a contraption strapped to their face I would view them as I do those people who ride their bikes around with their pet boa constrictors draped around their necks.

 

[herringbonekid]

the whole augmented reality / transhumanism trip is human folly on a grand scale if you ask me.
it used to be that techno-geeks who cared about such stuff only wrote or read sci-fi novels and comics. now they're director of engineering at Google.
look up Ray Kurzweil if you want to see an influential person in a powerful position who has completely lost touch with everyday reality.

 

[Two Types]

Facial recognition software is going to make life hard for undercover cops: Criminal gang gets hold of police graduation photos and they can scan with facial recognition software to see if there's anyone who has infiltrated the gang. This has, I am told, already caused some police colleges to ban cameras from graduations.

 

[HudsonHawk]

Facial recognition software is going to make life hard for undercover cops: Criminal gang gets hold of police graduation photos and they can scan with facial recognition software to see if there's anyone who has infiltrated the gang. This has, I am told, already caused some police colleges to ban cameras from graduations.

This happens to James Bond regularly. He tries to pretend he's a regular guy, but there's always someone who snaps his picture, quickly runs it through their database, and BAM!..."Bond, James; Agent MI6; Licence to Kill".

 

[Foxer55]

herringbonekid,

the whole augmented reality / transhumanism trip is human folly on a grand scale if you ask me.
it used to be that techno-geeks who cared about such stuff only wrote or read sci-fi novels and comics. now they're director of engineering at Google.
look up Ray Kurzweil if you want to see an influential person in a powerful position who has completely lost touch with everyday reality.

My sentiments exactly. I don't see how this contributes anything to our humanity. On the other hand, I may be wrong. 100 years from now with all these biologically altered people with their bio-support technology living in a sterile world may look back on us the way we look back on Neanderthals. Not a very pleasant thing to consider. It seems as if Brave New World was truly a harbinger of things to come.

In Alvin Tofflers book Power Shift (one of his futurism series which were excellent) he discusses a coming world like this with two classes of people, the ones who live for 150 years in perfect surroundings with technology and the ones who live in the 'other' world who live for 60 years in poverty and squalor. His view is that there will be constant warfare between the two classes over resources and viability.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

This happens to James Bond regularly. He tries to pretend he's a regular guy, but there's always someone who snaps his picture, quickly runs it through their database, and BAM!..."Bond, James; Agent MI6; Licence to Kill".

 

[buelligan]

Does anyone actually wear Google glasses, in real life? If I saw someone on the street with such a contraption strapped to their face I would view them as I do those people who ride their bikes around with their pet boa constrictors draped around their necks.

Apparently they do, just a couple of weeks ago here in Columbus the Feds yanked a guy out of a movie theater because they suspected he was trying to record a bootleg copy with his Google glasses.

 

[Horace Debussy Jones]

Reminds me of Orwell's 1984. I'm hoping science fiction does NOT become science fact in this case.

herringbonekid,



My sentiments exactly. I don't see how this contributes anything to our humanity. On the other hand, I may be wrong. 100 years from now with all these biologically altered people with their bio-support technology living in a sterile world may look back on us the way we look back on Neanderthals. Not a very pleasant thing to consider. It seems as if Brave New World was truly a harbinger of things to come.

In Alvin Tofflers book Power Shift (one of his futurism series which were excellent) he discusses a coming world like this with two classes of people, the ones who live for 150 years in perfect surroundings with technology and the ones who live in the 'other' world who live for 60 years in poverty and squalor. His view is that there will be constant warfare between the two classes over resources and viability.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Reminds me of Orwell's 1984. I'm hoping science fiction does NOT become science fact in this case.

1984 is already here. Facial recognition is available to cops scanning street cameras & then there's the whole NSA thing.

 

[GHT]

But for teenage boys, the X-Ray app is what previous, pimply faced, hormonal, tossers could only dream about.
[video]https://player.vimeo.com/video/31822416[/video]
Amazing how the app knows how to stop at the underwear.

 

[jamespowers]

But for teenage boys, the X-Ray app is what previous, pimply faced, hormonal, tossers could only dream about.
[video]https://player.vimeo.com/video/31822416[/video]
Amazing how the app knows how to stop at the underwear.

:rofl: Riiiiggghhhhttt!

 

[LizzieMaine]

There is nothing new under the sun.

 

[Gregg Axley]

There is nothing new under the sun.

Darn. Beat me to it.
I used to see those advertisements on the back of the comic books.

 

[jamespowers]

Darn. Beat me to it.
I used to see those advertisements on the back of the comic books.

And they didn't work then either. :doh:

 

[Smithy]

This sort of stuff actually really worries me (the Google goggles not the x-ray specs).

I watched Elysium the other day and you have to wonder where technology is taking us. I'm not a technophobe by any means but the way emerging technology is intruding more and more on the individual's privacy does give me a nasty feeling.

 

[Foxer55]

Smithy,

This sort of stuff actually really worries me (the Google goggles not the x-ray specs).

I watched Elysium the other day and you have to wonder where technology is taking us. I'm not a technophobe by any means but the way emerging technology is intruding more and more on the individual's privacy does give me a nasty feeling.

The real problem here is there will be no limit of databases gathering and archiving information on everyone and you have no idea how all this personal information will be used. The government, corporate hacks, the Boys From Marketing, criminals, job competitors, neighbors, the kid down the street, the Russian Mob, absolutely anybody and everybody. Your life will no longer belong to you.

The problem gets even bigger in the future as all this stored data is gathered and refined as a database about you, your genes, your gene pool background, and used against you in, say, a job application or introduction to some girl you want to meet or marry. The progress of technology could or could not be in the best interest of human evolution unless you want to call the emergence of technology the next evolutionary frontier.