Saturday, May 05, 2018

In Smart Cities, Your Every Step Will Be Recorded

"Although they have huge potential to make life better, the possibility of increasingly smarter cities also raises serious privacy concerns. Through sensors embedded into our cities, and the smartphones in our pockets, smart cities will have the power to constantly identify where people are, who they are meeting and even perhaps what they are doing."
https://www.technocracy.news/with-smart-cities-your-every-step-will-be-recorded


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_Interest_(TV_series)#Plot
POI is a very interesting TV series about A.I. technology and surveillance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_Interest_(TV_series)#Computer_systems

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_of_the_State_(film)#Plot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conversation#Plot

It's a balance to try to keep cities safe but not to become totalitarian hell-holes.


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=A.I. 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=control

The Vivo Apex smartphone is a glimpse into the future

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYvH7Y16iUM ,
https://www.youtube.com/user/unboxtherapy/videos

http://www.vivo.com/en/about-vivo/news/apex2018

A pin code, a fingerprint scanner, an eye or face scan, the more options, the better.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/cell-phone-reviews/vivo-apex-hands-on-review
Any new concept smart-phone can certainly get people thinking about what is on the tech horizon.
https://www.cnet.com/news/vivo-apex-coming-to-public-report

https://www.androidauthority.com/vivo-apex-public-release-844359

https://www.androidcentral.com/vivo-apex-confirmed-public-release-production-begin-mid-2018

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/2/25/17051692/vivo-apex-concept-phone-half-screen-fingerprint-scanner-selfie-camera-mwc-2018

http://www.vivo.com/en/products

Eventually such bio-metric features might even analyze ones breath, BO and DNA. At a certain point its no longer just a phone and a pocket computer, its a bio-metric transmitting and A.I. tracking device.