2. Any smartphone nowadays has as much raw computing
power as a top-of-the-line laptop from 10 years ago
Photo by Johan Larsson (Flickr)
3. 78 per cent of young people, ages 12 to 17, now have cellphones.
Nearly half of those are smartphones, a share that's increasing
steadily
Photo by WillieChiang (Flickr)
4. One in four young people
say they are "cell-mostly"
Internet users, a percentage
that increases to about half
when the phone is a
smartphone.
Photo by Macy Blomely (Flickr)
5. Nomophobia describes the anxiety felt when someone has no
access to mobile technology
Photo By Dror Poleg (Flickr)
6. “I've had students tell me that they bring
their cell phones in the shower with them.
They sleep with them”
-Stephen Groening, George Mason University
Photo by MeneerDijk (Flickr)
7. Photo by StockMonkeys.com (Flickr)
The business model of today’s free social media networks and
search engines, of course, is collecting and storing behavior and
interests of every kind…
…and selling that information to marketers
8. Photos by Yugus (Flickr)
And companies are getting better at organizing and finding
out about every last bit of a user’s social life, whether it’s a
party picture or a preference for a certain kind of shoe
9. Photo by jonsiedman1988 (Flickr)
Once a lamentable image is released into the world and stored on a social
network’s server and your friends’ smartphones, it can be hard to delete…
What the public has yet to realize…is that their data are not only
being archived but also analyzed and scored.
10. Photo by Son of Groucho (Flickr)
“Whenever I ask someone, do they want control over the messages
and media that they send to others, the answer 100 percent is yes.”
-Nico Sell, Wickr Co-Founder
11. Photo by tedeytan (Flickr)
While none of us were looking, Google -- the most data-
hungry of today's digital giants -- is reengineering mobile
technology
12. “Glass will also have an automatic picture-taking
mode, snapping pics at a preset intervals (such as every
5 seconds).”
-Sergey Brin, Google Co-Founder
Photo by laverrue (Flickr)
13. Google Glass opens an entirely new
front in the digital war against privacy.
These spectacles, which have been
specifically designed to record
everything we see, represent a
developmental leap in the history of
data that is comparable to moving from
the bicycle to the automobile.
Photo by im nothing in particular (Flickr)
14. Photo by Alan Cleaver (Flickr)
It is the sort of radical
transformation that may actually
end up completely destroying our
individual privacy in the digital
21st century.
15. Photo by doegox (Flickr)
For Google, “privacy" means "what you've
agreed to”, and that is slightly different from
the privacy we've become used to over time.
So how comfortable – or uneasy – should we feel
about the possibility that what we're doing in a public
or semi-public place (or even somewhere private)
might get slurped up and assimilated by Google?
16. Photo by Truthout.org (Flickr)
By getting us to wear their all seeing digital
eyeglasses, Google are metamorphosing us
into human versions of those Street View vans
-- now thankfully banned in Germany --
which crawl, like giant cockroaches, around
our cities documenting our homes
17. Photo by stevendepolo (Flickr)
The terabytes of data sucked up every five seconds
by its omniscient glasses will, of course, flow to
Google. That's the whole business model, the very
raison d'etre of Google Glass. Those pics every 5
seconds will be used to aggregate data and then to
generate billions of dollars of revenue by selling
advertising around it.
18. Can a child properly consent to filming or being
filmed? Is an adult, who happens to be visible in
a camera's peripheral vision in a bar, consenting?
Photo by mikebaird (Flickr)
19. The idea that you could
inadvertently become part of
somebody else's data collection –
that could be quite alarming. And
Google has already become the
company which knows where you
are and what you're looking for...
Photo by jbachman01 (Flickr)
21. Photo by waitscm (Flickr)
Supermarkets and packaging companies spend
lots of money trying to work out which
packages you look at first on a shelf.
Potentially, through Google Glass, they would
be capturing that data as standard. That would
be quite powerful – to be able to say why
people buy things.
22. Google Glass, thus, may
become the pivotal post
PC, post iPod and post tablet
device. A pooling of all our
most intimate data, a mirror of
ourselves -- the holy grail, of
course, for advertisers.
Photo by hawk2009 (Flickr)
23. Credits
All images are licensed under the
Creative Commons Non-Commercial
Share-Alike 3.0 agreement and
sourced from Flickr.
Photo by DarrelBirkett (Flickr)
Photos by Yugus (Flickr)And companies are getting better at organizing and finding out about every last bit of a user’s social life, whether it’s a party picture or a preference for a certain kind of shoe
Photo by jonsiedman1988 (Flickr)Once a lamentable image is released into the world and stored on a social network’s server and your friends’ smartphones, it can be hard to delete. What the public has yet to realize…is that their data are not only being archived but also analyzed and scored
Photo by Son of Groucho (Flickr)Whenever I ask someone, do they want control over the messages and media that they send to others, the answer 100 percent is yes
Photo by tedeytan (Flickr)While none of us were looking, Google -- the most data-hungry of today's digital giants -- is reengineering mobile technology
Photo by laverrue (Flickr)According to Google co-founder Sergey Brin, quoted by tech website Mashable, "Glass will also have an automatic picture-taking mode, snapping pics at a preset intervals (such as every 5 seconds).
Photo by im nothing in particular (Flickr)Google Glass opens an entirely new front in the digital war against privacy. These spectacles, which have been specifically designed to record everything we see, represent a developmental leap in the history of data that is comparable to moving from the bicycle to the automobile.
Photo by Alan Cleaver (Flickr)It is the sort of radical transformation that may actually end up completely destroying our individual privacy in the digital 21st century.
Photo by doegox (Flickr)For Google, "privacy" means "what you've agreed to", and that is slightly different from the privacy we've become used to over time. So how comfortable – or uneasy – should we feel about the possibility that what we're doing in a public or semi-public place (or even somewhere private) might get slurped up and assimilated by Google?
Photo by Truthout.org (Flickr)By getting us to wear their all seeing digital eyeglasses, Google are metamorphosing us into human versions of those Street View vans -- now thankfully banned in Germany -- which crawl, like giant cockroaches, around our cities documenting our homes
Photo by stevendepolo (Flickr)The terabytes of data sucked up every five seconds by its omniscient glasses will, of course, flow to Google. That's the whole business model, the very raison d'etre of Google Glass. Those pics every 5 seconds will be used to aggregate data and then to generate billions of dollars of revenue by selling advertising around it.
Photo by mikebaird (Flickr)Can a child properly consent to filming or being filmed? Is an adult, who happens to be visible in a camera's peripheral vision in a bar, consenting?
Photo by nolaclutterbustersThe idea that you could inadvertently become part of somebody else's data collection – that could be quite alarming. And Google has become the company which knows where you are and what you're looking for. Now it's going to be able to compute what it is you're looking at
Photo bywaitscmSupermarkets and packaging companies spend lots of money trying to work out which packages you look at first on a shelf. Potentially, through Google Glass, they would be capturing that data as standard. That would be quite powerful – to be able to say why people buy things
Photo by hawk2009Google Glass, thus, may become the pivotal post PC, post iPod and post tablet device. A pooling of all our most intimate data, a mirror of ourselves -- the holy grail, of course, for advertisers.
