While going through airport screening I overheard a man telling his wife that something on his back alarmed and yet, there was no object found. They shook their heads and moved on after a quick resolution process. He didn’t know that it was the high amount of sweat on his shirt that caused an anomaly – a biological factor on a hot day, not a concealed object.
Most people don’t understand technologies they experience at airport screening; there are actually many security layers with only a few being visible.
Then there's the automobile. Can you diagnose and fix your car's engine in the driveway? Those days are gone thanks to digitalization under the hood.
Medical devices are created as real-time body sensors requiring a listening network and upgrades similar to computers.
If you talk about the cloud it’s mystifying. They are "out there" but, where? Do Microsoft, Amazon, Apple or Verizon manage your digital cloud life?
From the healthcare industry to media giants to car manufacturing, space industries and blockchain – the foundational technology is shared networks. And yet, there are still "telephone poles" across rural America. The Washington, D.C. progressive think-tank, the ITIF, advocates for increasing open society networks of personal information to fulfill their innovation-driven world view. From overhead wires to underground fiber cables to heart-rate monitoring smart phones - one can see open networks leading directly to our human bodies because that's where the hottest data lies for many industries - in our bodies and brains and genomes.
It's time to distinguish personal data from biological. Both may be a competitive asset to certain businesses, both may also be biased or malicious, however, it's not all about research we're asked to participate in for the "betterment of mankind." It's more about marketing and profiting by acquiring and selling both data sources - the average personal kind and the biological. With anemic policy and ethical standards to lead the world through the bio-revolution, human-ness will represent its shared network with neuroscience and genetics sustaining the inevitable future promised in the context of the new evolution; less human and more connected. Humans are becoming the network.
robertpwaters.com 2016
Most people don’t understand technologies they experience at airport screening; there are actually many security layers with only a few being visible.
Then there's the automobile. Can you diagnose and fix your car's engine in the driveway? Those days are gone thanks to digitalization under the hood.
Medical devices are created as real-time body sensors requiring a listening network and upgrades similar to computers.
If you talk about the cloud it’s mystifying. They are "out there" but, where? Do Microsoft, Amazon, Apple or Verizon manage your digital cloud life?
From the healthcare industry to media giants to car manufacturing, space industries and blockchain – the foundational technology is shared networks. And yet, there are still "telephone poles" across rural America. The Washington, D.C. progressive think-tank, the ITIF, advocates for increasing open society networks of personal information to fulfill their innovation-driven world view. From overhead wires to underground fiber cables to heart-rate monitoring smart phones - one can see open networks leading directly to our human bodies because that's where the hottest data lies for many industries - in our bodies and brains and genomes.
It's time to distinguish personal data from biological. Both may be a competitive asset to certain businesses, both may also be biased or malicious, however, it's not all about research we're asked to participate in for the "betterment of mankind." It's more about marketing and profiting by acquiring and selling both data sources - the average personal kind and the biological. With anemic policy and ethical standards to lead the world through the bio-revolution, human-ness will represent its shared network with neuroscience and genetics sustaining the inevitable future promised in the context of the new evolution; less human and more connected. Humans are becoming the network.
robertpwaters.com 2016