Robert P. Waters, Author
  • Men's Poetry Night
  • Shaken Leaders
  • The Prophetic Backbone
  • BLOG: really more unreal
  • The Only Fields That Matter
  • About the Author

The Behavior of Surrendering Privacy

4/22/2018

0 Comments

 
Picture
Excerpt from, The Prophetic Backbone, now available at amazon.com in the kindle store.

The issue today with internet-of-things (IoT) home products and healthcare wearable devices concerns our need to change one behavior after another. We're then consciously reevaluating human nature. Simply stated, internet-of-things technologies must be  marketed behaviorally; sensors bring biological or psychological value to each person uniquely but at the same time, connect us into unknown networks. When sensors are implanted or worn, users attain knowledge from their data and evaluate themselves according to comments and opinions from owner communities. We are assimilating bio-sharing into healthy behaviors that are highly tuned to privacy. To share, and to believe we should share everything, is a new behavior. We now proudly wear a smart watch and begin “sharing” immediately. The product is designed to initiate a new behavior. As for home IoT appliances, these do nothing more than generate data about mechanical reliability, environmental quality and even real-time feedback to a manufacturer’s customer support, likely a bot. These too, like wearables, are fundamentally driven with ideological stimulus, to say, you’re smart if you’re connected and non-intelligent if you aren’t. The subtle social marketing thrust to integrate IoT products into your life is that sharing live data relieves you of being labeled non-intelligence. You’re becoming futuristic one behavior at a time while the skeptics become less socially relevant. Technology is your sixth sense and although virtuous for a time, does not carry any logical comparison to humans’ five senses, intuition and intelligence.

We are in a technology revolution but we are also experiencing a prophetic movement - all human behaviors, say technologists, such as trust, love and hate or empathy, will one day be machine-replicable so as to enable computers to associate “personhood” with a bio-data profile. We're on such a path.

​
Robert P. Waters, Author 2018
0 Comments

    BLOG
    really more unreal

    Perspectives about how and why business is re-valuing human capability with technology

    Archives

    November 2024
    February 2024
    January 2024
    January 2020
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015

Site powered by Weebly. Managed by Bluehost