Entries tagged with: Participatory Panopticon

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Unwittingly Participating in the Panopticon

This does not seem like a good combination: The FBI wants (has?) backdoors to monitor Skype (along with other Internet telephony apps); tellingly, there's already concern that such backdoors are open to non-FBI intruders. The soon-to-arrive XBox One has Skype...

Posted on May 22, 2013 10:26 AM

#ifIhadglass

Google Glass: a wearable heads-up display and camera, linked to your mobile device, able to do live recording, searches, route guidance, and more. Available soon for about $1500, and in "explorer" testing now. (The title hashtag -- #ifihadglass -- is...

Posted on February 22, 2013 2:08 PM

Participatory Panopticon On Its Way (Maybe)

Picturephoning gives a heads-up on "Recognizr" (you know it's cutting-edge when they leave out the "e"), an iPhone app that will supposedly recognize faces seen by the camera. Here's the promo video: It's a prototype from the Swedish group The...

Posted on March 2, 2010 5:44 PM

Participatory Panopticon: The Official Version

The Institute for the Future's 2007 Ten-Year Forecast included, as one of the forecast items, the Participatory Panopticon. IFTF is now making past Ten-Year Forecast materials more readily accessible to the public, and I was pleased to see that the...

Posted on May 28, 2009 11:02 AM

Topsight, May 26, 2009

Because this blog isn't just links to stuff I've done elsewhere. Honest! • The Participatory Panopticon In Action Police Slog Through 40,000 Insipid Party Pics To Find Cause Of Dorm Fire From The Onion, of course. As tongue-in-cheek as this...

Posted on May 26, 2009 2:05 PM

New Fast Company Column: I Can See You

My new Fast Company column is now up. I Can See You looks at the dilemmas surrounding mass transparency and the "culture of documentation." With the rise of cheap, networked recording devices--aka, cameraphones--we're seeing the emergence of a culture of...

Posted on May 21, 2009 1:53 PM

Topsight, April 8, 2009

Participatory Panopticon edition! I've been pounded with work, and haven't been keeping up with my bloggy duties. Here are some of the issues I've been following: • Sigh, Eyeborg: Yeah, "eyeborg" -- a guy in the UK Canada (thanks @clothbot)...

Posted on April 8, 2009 5:11 PM

Rise of the Participatory Panopticon

I'm at a future of video workshop at the Institute for the Future today, and the topic of the participatory panopticon has come up. For people who are new to the concept, here's the original discussion of the participatory panopticon,...

Posted on March 6, 2009 10:58 AM

Massively-Multiplayer Decepticon

A new pandemic is sweeping the planet. Police fired on secessionist demonstrators in Oregon. The Chinese government is trying (unsuccessfully) to suppress news of eco-terrorists bombing multiple coal-fired power plants. We're looking at climate refugees numbering in the tens of...

Posted on September 12, 2008 3:04 PM

Do Not Taunt Massive Quake Ball

Image by Guillaume Paumier / Wikimedia Commons, CC-by-sa-3.0 As anyone who has built a tower out of blocks or LEGO knows, as they get taller, the more small movements at the base can be magnified into catastrophic motion at...

Posted on June 25, 2008 4:10 PM

The Griefer Future

Nice little future you got there. Hate to see something bad happen to it. The blending of the physical and immersive digital worlds -- the metaverse -- inevitably produces bizarre results. I've noted (and we've started to see examples of)...

Posted on June 23, 2008 2:47 PM

The Participatory Decepticon

What happens when not only have the tools of documenting the world become democratized, so too have the tools for manipulating our interpretations of reality? The rise of technologies of ubiquitous personal observation -- what I've termed the "participatory panopticon"...

Posted on June 10, 2008 1:21 PM

Documentation

As powerful as the images of people dealing with the immense disaster in Sichuan's 7.9 earthquake have been, none have struck me as much as this series. It was a wedding, and the photographer was starting to do his set...

Posted on May 21, 2008 4:00 PM

On the Record

Whenever I talk about the participatory panopticon, one issue grabs an audience more often than anything else -- privacy. But the more I dig into the subject, the more it becomes clear that the real target of the panopticon technologies...

Posted on April 14, 2008 1:47 PM

The Medical Panopticon

Web-enabled personal medical information technologies have been a standard item in the futurist's scrapbook for a few years now. It's one of those concepts that's hard to imagine not happening: the demographic, technological, and market pressures for Internet-mediated health technologies...

Posted on January 10, 2008 5:16 PM

Monday Topsight, December 10, 2007

Let's see what's bubbled up through the Intertubes recently... • Oh, No: In their never-ending quest to make ordinary citizens rise up and destroy capitalism, the advertising community has discovered a new place to put hard-to-ignore ads: in your skull....

Posted on December 10, 2007 12:17 PM

Make It So

How soon until we see one of these? The "artifact from the future" shown above is my visualization of a bluetooth headset with an embedded cameraphone-style camera, able to send the video to one's handheld for recording and display....

Posted on November 1, 2007 1:43 PM

Visions of the Future conference, Budapest

The point of my trip to Budapest, the Visions of the Future conference brought together representatives from two different Hungarian technology institutions and representatives from the Institute for the Future: research directors Alex SK Pang and Anthony Townsend, along with...

Posted on October 3, 2007 5:15 AM

Technology as Political Catalyst

It's become almost a cliché to observe that the Internet is changing the face of electoral politics at the national scale. The use of the web for fundraising (and to observe fundraising) is an obvious example, but for me a...

Posted on July 17, 2007 4:18 PM

Tuesday Topsight, June 5, 2007

My month of travel is over, and I look forward to sleeping in my own bed. • Vote Early, Vote Often: I recorded my KQED Perspectives piece earlier today, and once again was told that I have a voice for...

Posted on June 5, 2007 8:36 PM

Participatory Panopticon in Action

Justin of Justin.tv was the guest at today's recording of the RU Sirius podcast. A pretty genial guy, he seems reasonably conscious of the implications of his ongoing project. For those of you unfamiliar with Justin.tv, he wears a live-streaming...

Posted on May 13, 2007 8:41 PM

Monday Topsight, May 7, 2007

Busy week coming up: working a panel on the future of sustainability tomorrow; delivering a talk to the TAKEAWAY festival of DIY media, in London (I'll be presenting remotely); lots of IFTF stuff; and prepping for a return to London...

Posted on May 7, 2007 12:38 PM

Metaverse Roadmap Report

I'm more-or-less done now with my part of the report for the Metaverse Roadmap Project. Jerry Paffendorf and John Smart each wrote parts of the overall document, but my (very large) chunk is the set of scenarios describing four different...

Posted on April 15, 2007 5:53 PM

Co-opting the Participatory Panopticon?

Is it still "sousveillance" -- watching from below -- if it's going straight to The Man? The city of New York, in a rather clever move, has decided to equip its 911 (emergency) and 311 (non-emergency) call centers with the...

Posted on January 18, 2007 3:44 PM

December Futurismic Column Now Up

This month's Futurismic column is now up (my fault that it's late). It's an update on what's happening with the participatory panopticon. This time, I look at what Michael Richards, UCLA cops, and George "Macaca" Allen have in common, and...

Posted on December 4, 2006 2:47 PM

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