Kurzweil VoicePad and Dragon Naturally Speaking tried to build Voice Recognition on-device for years and it was a bright and techno future. This is what everyone has been trying to build for years. This isn't your mind being expanded, this isn't you thinking new thoughts. This whole thing is the culmination of years of singularity "the computer will expand the mind" rhetoric. I like how you redefine PRIVATE from "something I can see" to "something I can see and Google machines can add to and edit at whim, and Google employees hired by strangers for profit, an unknown number in unknown places, with no individual accountability, can potentially access" and then use your new definition of PRIVATE-which-isn't to bludgeon other people as luddites. That's probably the only reason I pick them up from the airport frankly. My family forwards their itineraries and I don't have do anything else, it's automatically calendared. And all of a sudden it's creepy? Because they notified you a dozen times, via email they were going to do this, and you ignored it?Įmail has been turned into a useful automatically actionable system. It's totally privacy protecting - the calendar entries, push notifications are private. google will also combine real-time flight info with your flight info, and tell you useful things via PRIVATE push notifications to you only. google will now automatically do said calendar entries - on your PRIVATE calendar btw gmail used to offer making a calendar for certain keywords in an email I learn about delayed flights way way in advance of anyone else as a result. Google is doing something useful with my email. I'm no longer surprised when technical users seem to lack basic knowledge about a particular technology, because no one can specialize in everything Our company has plenty of developers, for example, that can code at a substantially higher level than I am able, but otherwise their computer literacy is completely non existent. Technical knowledge: While there are lots of highly technically skilled users here, many of them specialize in something not related to this topic in any meaningful way. Dark patterns/misdirection/dishonesty: companies do everything in their power to make sure user aren't able to easily opt out, don't have a clear understanding of what is actually happening, and make it very difficult to find answers about it in a way the average user would understandĤ. Assumptions: This may be tied to the previous point, but I think a lot of people make assumptions that these massively successful, and in their eyes beneficial, organizations wouldn't be collecting, analyzing, or using data in any kind of malicious or questionable ways if they even think about it at allģ. so it "feels" a lot better not constantly thinking about and analyzing the ways in which your trackedĢ. It can be upsetting, anxiety inducing, uncomfortable, dystopian, etc. Ignorance is bliss: People don't WANT to know about this kind of thing. I would've agree with you in the past, but I think there are a number of reasons that there is always a huge amount of "surprise" when things like this are posted:ġ.
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