We’re super happy about self driving cars, but who owns the self driving cars? Who owns the information about where they can and can’t go? I don’t want to ride in a self driving car that can’t drive me to a certain place because someone has bought or sold an illegal copy of something there.
This guy is a bit ‘out there’. He wants Big Government to step in and ‘do something’
‘Big data is like big tobacco. Presumed to be safe for decades and when we understood the cancer it brought, it was hard for people to quit’
I have no Facebook account and there are alternatives to Goolag.
Screw Big Government solutions, the best way around any potentially addictive drug is to never start using it in the first place.
I don’t believe I will EVER be a passenger in a self-driving car. Primarily, because I am not now, nor will I EVER be on Facebook. There are so many websites and website utilities that ONLY work with a Facebook account. And I expect that there will be more and more centralization of Facebook’s dominance in controlling content and usage of the internet. It will be … “no Facebook account … no admittance”. No T-shirt, no shoes, no service.
We are facing the “Brave New World” right in the face – right NOW … and Mark Zuckerberg is Big Brother. He seems like such an innocuous, disarming guy in his T-shirt and jeans … but he is telling you exactly what to do and think. If you are a leftist, you will love this. You want to be told what to think and what to do … so long as it comes with a welfare payment, food stamps, and a free bus ride to the unemployment office. “Yes, master, you are so much wiser than I … I will OBEY”!!
The ONE and only application for self-driving vehicles is for the disabled (blind, injured, etc), who are dependant on public transit.
I worked on one of the first “smart” houses in its construction stage. The builder built and designed it for disabled people, to show off the technology. No disabled person ever lived in that high end home, to my knowledge. But all those applications are now a part of everyday life in new houses worldwide, should you choose to pay for them.
This is a way for the developers to get government funding, but the intended direction of the business is to make a lot of money. Zuckerburg et al, know way more about each and every one of us think possible, if we have ever owned and registered a computer or device.
The issue here is that the insurance cabal have demanded huge payouts when things go sideways and only deep pockets to settle the lawsuits is permissible. And there will be many lawsuits in the future.
“And just like with tobacco, it’s governments that need to create the restrictions. However, it’s difficult to see how any government — except for big players like US and EU — are supposed to be able to restrict the powerful tech giants.”
This person is just another demented Leftist, and a criminal too. Founded rip-off site Pirate Bay, remember?
A self driving car that doesn’t drive you where -you- want to go will not be self driving for long. Sidecutters beats programming every time.
These people always forget what happened to the Stazi. The Stazi were all-powerful, all-knowing. They literally knew, and kept track of, what people of interest to them had for breakfast every day. Eventually, everybody in East Germany stopped playing along, and the Stazi ended up hanging from lamp posts.
The same thing his happening this week to the All Powerful Ayatollahs of Iran.
It will happen to Google/Facebook/Apple/Amazon too. Probably pretty soon. People don’t like being spied on, and the Big Data profit stream relies heavily on government special deals. As the government becomes a tiny bit less accommodating, look for those profit streams to dry up fast.
Amazon had a shot fired across their bow this week when Trump tweeted about the US Post Office special deal that keeps Amazon in business. If Amazon paid the same shipping rate as everyone else, they’d be bankrupt. Trump could make that happen with a sweep of his pen.
“… the US Post Office special deal that keeps Amazon in business. If Amazon paid the same shipping rate as everyone else, they’d be bankrupt. Trump could make that happen with a sweep of his pen.”
I’m sure he could but can he afford to? Perhaps Amazon and USPS have each other by the balls.
Americans will know better, but Trump tweets that the USPO is a shambling wreck, stumbling from one disaster to the next, and swimming in a sea of undelivered packages. Mostly because its never modernized, and is still running 1970s tech patches of 1930s strategies. They were running IBM punch-card machines in the 1990’s if I remember correctly. So was the IRS.
Meanwhile UPS has same-day, coast-to-coast package delivery for not a lot more than the USPO charges.
The little post-office in Hooterville Ontario where I live, Canada Post can’t keep up with the volume. The storage space is too small for the daily package intake/sort/deliver, all their wanky systems can’t manage.
Wow. PB ss an example. PB used to be awesome, now it’s pop ups and redirects.I avoid it like the plague.
“We don’t create things anymore” complains the founder of Pirate Bay. The guy’s a raging hypocrite who’s found a camera to get in front of.
Shorter version of the article:
“Corporations are centralizing everything, and centralization is bad! We need to fix it by having the government step in and centralize everything!”
/facepalm
“Primarily, because I am not now, nor will I EVER be on Facebook.”
Same here. I’ve never had a Facebook account and I NEVER will. If that means becoming a “Blank” then so be it.
if you use the internet, a smart phone, or anything connected to such, they will harvest and mine your information. Not using Fake Book will not protect you from this harvesting and mining.
NSA was doing data collection for years now.
Unfortunately, there might be occasions when it might be necessary. Even professional associations are preferring to use Farcebook over e-mail messages to keep in touch with their members, having largely abandoned regular post for that purpose.