Now that this cat’s fully out of the bag, I’ll append the concept of mesh networks to fortify my previous prediction about Android/Google/Facebook and an omnidigital lifestyle. If you don’t know what mesh networks are, wikipedia does the job so I won’t waste your time explaining it further. Take Rob’s ideas about stochastic patterns in social media success and apply that lens to your life with the immutable trend of people and technology colliding into a heuristic oneness. A Peepknowledgy cloud? A GoogleMesh will enable and augment this concept.
Imagine a world in which someone knew where you are, what you were doing, who you were talking to and what you like to spend your money on. It’s not hard to conceptualize if you’re a believer in an omnipotent deity. But now imagine companies have omnipotence over your life, lifestyle and livelihood. A company that blends all this information into a predictive index of where you’ll go next, who you’ll be around, and – drum roll – again, how and when you like to separate from your disposable income.
Those links are skewed to shock for effect, but obviously the smoldering issue here is Privacy. Mark my words: Google and Facebook will some day have more actionable, behaviorally-patterned intelligence about you than the CIA could possibly dream of collecting or predicting. How will these new products and technologies weave their way into society while assuaging privacy concerns? I don’t know, but I’m sure it will be a white-hot sociopolitical issue in the not-so-distant future.
As an AI buff, Rob probably has thoughts on the convergence of media and a tech-dependent lifestyle, and what it might mean to AI in business. Rob is hereby tagged if listening and interested in sharing!
Sure the Patriot Act gets buzz, but how and when will privacy concerns finally emerge with respect to consumers, marketers and the platforms that seed and spread messages?
