Peerside

Blogging, tweeting, your linkedin feed, facebook, flickr gallery, GPS location, who you're talking to on the phone, what you're wearing, how you're feeling ... where will it all stop, or will it ?

I'm currently reading Accelerando (Singularity) by Charles Stross which starts with a character who makes his living from spreading ideas, hooking people up with new technologies, memes and innovations - interesting stuff but loses the plot about half way through. What I found intriguing was how, in the near fictional future, not only does everyone lifestream everything we see, hear and experience but they combine this data with personal agents for research, background checks, correlations etc. Imagine having your social agent whisper peoples names, when you met them last and the name of their significant other as you meet new people - not because you have told it that information but because it has mined your lifestreamed recordings and inferred the information. Another cool geolocation scenario is suggested where one of the characters ventures into a dangerous part of the city and is reminded by one of her personal agents that this will impact on her insurance premium - if the agent stuff doesn't freak you out then the use of geo data for risk based insurance billing should.

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