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[–]Vigte[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

What does it mean to have an unforgettable childhood — or an unforgettable life?

Good question.

“First memories, forever.” That’s the promise of Babeyes, a product unveiled in January at the Consumer Electronics Show. The idea is simple: Attach the Babeyes camera to your newborn or infant, and it will gather footage of the world from a baby’s point of view.

Oh my fuck...

But if a baby body camera feels like it’s a step too far now, will that always be the case?

Not if you fucks get your way, that's for sure...

From being the early test subjects of “sharenting”—the modern parental propensity for putting every moment of their child’s life on social media — to having smartphone apps that follow their every movement, Generation Z is the first to come of age in a world of total surveillance. Every generation that follows will inevitably know what it feels like to be constantly watched. Fundamentally, they will be linked by a logic of their era that they have no choice but to accept: Every aspect of their lives must be documented and tracked.

Every aspect of their lives must be documented and tracked. That phrase disturbs me greatly.

In 2014, Kate Crawford, co-director and co-founder of the A.I. Now Institute at New York University, dissected what she called “surveillant anxiety.”

That anxiety, Crawford wrote, manifested itself in the consumer realm by way of the then-nascent “normcore” trend, a nondescript style of clothing. Normcore was the opposite of distinct, it was a bland fashion of sameness. Normcore, Crawford argued, was symptomatic of always being watched, “an indication of how the cultural idea of disappearing has become cool at the very historical moment when it has become almost impossible because of big data and widespread surveillance.”

So no one is actually happy with it, that makes sense... too bad you didn't pick up on that, Mrs Smarty Pants McThinkTankface.

Half a decade later, there’s every reason to still be anxious. Our post-Snowden fears have been buttressed by fresh news that corporations mine our intimate data, too, not just governments. But the way Gen Z has chosen to deal with it is reflective of the surveillant world in which they were raised. Instead of trying to disappear, they have become, like Sharpe, hypervisible.

"I gots nothing to hide!!!" Fuck that "logic".

Gen Z knows they are shedding data. But they can’t choose to turn off the tap. Instead, the system dictates they must instead open the floodgates. You need to be seen: to board a flight, go to a concert, and even apply for a job. And, of course, to get rich. In the surveillant society, you only exist if you’re visible.

Fuck that and fuck you too medium, for thinking it's inevitable and MUST happen. Fuck you.

[–]WebcomicAddiction 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Fuck that and fuck you too medium, for thinking it's inevitable and MUST happen. Fuck you.

Relax your cheeks, sweetheart. People where hiding their personal affairs from public before and they will hide them now. Look at Instagram for example: its all fake. Those people literally create a fake image of themselves. Just like everyone does it "IRL". As you have said it already: no one actually likes it.

[–]Vigte[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Relax your cheeks, sweetheart.

Why do you care? (And why focus on that at the beginning? I wonder...)

People where hiding their personal affairs from public before and they will hide them now.

The article would argue otherwise, did you read it?

Look at Instagram for example: its all fake. Those people literally create a fake image of themselves. Just like everyone does it "IRL".

The difference being that people actually interested in knowing your secrets, would have the ability to know them.

As you have said it already: no one actually likes it.

Yet it continues, thus my anger.

[–]WebcomicAddiction 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Why do you care? (And why focus on that as the beginning? I wonder...)

Just commenting out of boredom.

The article would argue otherwise.

Who cares? Its yellow press.

Difference being that people actually interested in knowing your secrets, would have the ability to know them.

True. And there is some pushback. Either using capitalism or legislation systems people slowly fight governments and org's that are abusing technology.

[–]caffeineaddict 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I really like the article (though I don't necessarily like the outhor nor his intentions). I like it because it says there's something wrong with an entire generation (or an entire decade or time era) on the fundamental level. I doesn't necessarily have to be this feeling of being surveyed. I mean, it is a problem, true, but it may not be the main problem.

I share your frustration with the author's shill-like fake smiling attitute towards the surveillance.

I thin that the latest generation is the genertion of being addicted to smartphones, to corny memes, to corny jokes. 5-second-attention-span generation.

Anyway, this whole shit is fucket up.