I am urging you shoot down my little thought experiment:
Connecting the dots in the last few days, with the leaks, software like Adobe Insight apparently located in a building 5 minutes from NSA HQ, and the Utah data center, the leap to dystopia seems infinitely small.
If data storage size follows an exponential curve both physical and digital, i don't see a reason anything will be deleted.
People 60 years from now be able to search through their grandfathers, and everyone elses highest thoughts, dirtiest fantasies, and with advanced algorithms profile his personality to the slightest detail, from psychological and political leanings to cultural tastes and his exact social network mapped both in real life, in in the digital sphere. Maybe you could even follow him around real time in his day-to-day business, and see who he met and how interacted both actively and passively.
This might all be a little imaginative. But i really don't see the limits in creative data
analytics, with decades of complete profiling data. Maybe it can even fit on a small disk in the future and every historian or future despot will be able to trace your complete mental lineage.
The present and the future may, if any of this data leaks, or is used extensively, become an exercise in perverse voyeurism. Everyone will have zero secrets.
Connecting the dots in the last few days, with the leaks, software like Adobe Insight apparently located in a building 5 minutes from NSA HQ, and the Utah data center, the leap to dystopia seems infinitely small.
If data storage size follows an exponential curve both physical and digital, i don't see a reason anything will be deleted.
People 60 years from now be able to search through their grandfathers, and everyone elses highest thoughts, dirtiest fantasies, and with advanced algorithms profile his personality to the slightest detail, from psychological and political leanings to cultural tastes and his exact social network mapped both in real life, in in the digital sphere. Maybe you could even follow him around real time in his day-to-day business, and see who he met and how interacted both actively and passively.
This might all be a little imaginative. But i really don't see the limits in creative data analytics, with decades of complete profiling data. Maybe it can even fit on a small disk in the future and every historian or future despot will be able to trace your complete mental lineage.
The present and the future may, if any of this data leaks, or is used extensively, become an exercise in perverse voyeurism. Everyone will have zero secrets.
I am getting a little paranoid.