{"id":3730,"date":"2006-11-16T09:26:08","date_gmt":"2006-11-16T17:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2006\/11\/16\/3730.html"},"modified":"2006-11-16T09:26:08","modified_gmt":"2006-11-16T17:26:08","slug":"items-technology-and-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2006\/11\/16\/items-technology-and-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Items: Technology and society"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>These and the Bussard stuff in the previous entry seem to sort of fit into a general theme, something to do with the impact of current and near-future tech on society:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/11\/14\/AR2006111401312.html\">Amateur Videos Are Putting Official Abuse in New Light<\/a>\": <cite>Washington Post<\/cite> article on the effects of amateur videos and photos, from cell phones and digital cameras, on increasing awareness of abuses of power.  See also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.witness.org\/\">WITNESS<\/a>, \"an international human rights organization that provides training and support to local groups to use video in their human rights advocacy campaigns.\" This all ties in with David Brin's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidbrin.com\/tschp1.html\">Transparent Society<\/a> stuff, of course.<\/li>\n<li>Which leads me to Fast Company's article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/magazine\/110\/head-for-detail.html\">Gordon Bell and lifelogging<\/a>.  Fairly well-known stuff in some circles, but a good summary of what Bell does, how it works, and some of the pros and cons.  Basically, he's a 72-year-old computer scientist (he was involved in the PDP and VAX projects at DEC) who wears a small camera and microphone that record everything he encounters; it's all saved to disk.  Unfortunately, it sounds like his search technology isn't as good as he'd like; in particular, it's hard to search all those hundreds of thousands of photos. Also, there are all sorts of privacy and legal issues.  Still, a fascinating project.  For more, see the official <a href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/barc\/mediapresence\/MyLifeBits.aspx\">MyLifeBits<\/a> site.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2006\/10\/25\/magazines\/business2\/futureboy_bmw.biz2\/index.htm?postversion=2006102710\">BMW creating production-ready hybrid hydrogen car<\/a>. Not quite in the same category as the above items, but somewhat relevant, I think.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These and the Bussard stuff in the previous entry seem to sort of fit into a general theme, something to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,64,53,92,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-improving-society","category-internet","category-links","category-privacy","category-transportation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}