Picturephoning gives a heads-up on "Recognizr" (you know it's cutting-edge when they leave out the "e"), an iPhone app that will supposedly recognize faces seen by the camera. Here's the promo video: It's a prototype from the Swedish group The...
Posted by Jamais Cascio on March 2, 2010 5:44 PM
The Institute for the Future's 2007 Ten-Year Forecast included, as one of the forecast items, the Participatory Panopticon. IFTF is now making past Ten-Year Forecast materials more readily accessible to the public, and I was pleased to see that the...
Posted by Jamais Cascio on May 28, 2009 11:02 AM
Because this blog isn't just links to stuff I've done elsewhere. Honest! The Participatory Panopticon In Action Police Slog Through 40,000 Insipid Party Pics To Find Cause Of Dorm Fire From The Onion, of course. As tongue-in-cheek as this...
Posted by Jamais Cascio on May 26, 2009 2:05 PM
My new Fast Company column is now up. I Can See You looks at the dilemmas surrounding mass transparency and the "culture of documentation." With the rise of cheap, networked recording devices--aka, cameraphones--we're seeing the emergence of a culture of...
Posted by Jamais Cascio on May 21, 2009 1:53 PM
Participatory Panopticon edition! I've been pounded with work, and haven't been keeping up with my bloggy duties. Here are some of the issues I've been following: Sigh, Eyeborg: Yeah, "eyeborg" -- a guy in the UK Canada (thanks @clothbot)...
Posted by Jamais Cascio on April 8, 2009 5:11 PM
I'm at a future of video workshop at the Institute for the Future today, and the topic of the participatory panopticon has come up. For people who are new to the concept, here's the original discussion of the participatory panopticon,...
Posted by Jamais Cascio on March 6, 2009 10:58 AM
A new pandemic is sweeping the planet. Police fired on secessionist demonstrators in Oregon. The Chinese government is trying (unsuccessfully) to suppress news of eco-terrorists bombing multiple coal-fired power plants. We're looking at climate refugees numbering in the tens of...
Posted by Jamais Cascio on September 12, 2008 3:04 PM
Image by Guillaume Paumier / Wikimedia Commons, CC-by-sa-3.0 As anyone who has built a tower out of blocks or LEGO knows, as they get taller, the more small movements at the base can be magnified into catastrophic motion at...
Posted by Jamais Cascio on June 25, 2008 4:10 PM
Nice little future you got there. Hate to see something bad happen to it. The blending of the physical and immersive digital worlds -- the metaverse -- inevitably produces bizarre results. I've noted (and we've started to see examples of)...
Posted by Jamais Cascio on June 23, 2008 2:47 PM
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