After the Millennium Bug, a side-effect of 9/11 was the quest for a “silver bullet” in global and personal security.
Biometrics (see the article on Wikipedia to start your quest on what it means).
Pardon my over-simplification: I will consider biometrics, be it the actual measurement of physical, unchangeable characteristics of a human individual, or the profiling [...]
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Biometrics and you
Saturday, January 2nd, 2010Crazy writing experiments… and modeling human behavior
Sunday, May 10th, 2009GMN2009: Models
Friday, May 8th, 2009Since 1980s, also what once were called “broadsheets” started writing often about models.
Or- how whatever you do (as a person, group, organization, society) can be fed into a model, that can then tell what you are going to do next.
Let’s say that, for the time being, this automated removal of free will is just part of science fiction.
This post is part of a series, first published in May 2009.