Re: [projectvrm] Disruption and consumer power

[Don Marti < >]

begin Mary Hodder quotation of Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 03:02:51PM -0700:

> Again.. it's a balance. We can still love our technology.. but critically 
> assess what is going on and deal with it accordingly.

We worry about technology imbalance the most.

Spammers used to have better technology than
end users (Canter and Siegel used a Perl script...
http://www.wired.com/2010/04/0412canter-siegel-usenet-spam/
).  People worried about spam.  Then companies
chose sides and it all settled down to an
electricity-wasting spam vs. antispam background
struggle.

Today, surveillance marketing is ahead technically.
The worst part of the problem is that the business
has not yet consolidated, and everyone thinks that
his or her company can get a piece of it. 

(Will be interesting to watch IT vendors switch
sides as their Big Data Rush claims fail to pan out.
If you think today's FUD is bad, get ready for ads
that appeal to the hard-wired UNSEEN ENEMY IS WATCHING
YOU circuit in our monkey brains...)

Bonus link:
  Why A San Francisco Coffee Shop Stopped Tracking
  Customers' Phones
  
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/06/20/why-a-san-francisco-coffee-shop-stopped-tracking-customers-phones/

  (there is also a Kashmir Hill RSS feed...
  http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/feed/
  )

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Don Marti                    
http://zgp.org/~dmarti/