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
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