Privacy vs Progress

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@AmyVernon #PrivacyVsProgress VS photo by Alan Cleaver via Flickr Creative Commons Progress photo by David Ingram via Flickr Can they co-exist in the information age?

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We're at the point where we can't have it both ways anymore. We can't complain about giving up our privacy at the same time that we're loving the technology that comes about as a result of the information we're sharing about ourselves. The question remains whether we end up in the dystopian 1984/Minority Report world or a more hopeful United Federation of Planets/classic Star Trek future. My presentation for IgniteNYC #ignitenyc16

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@AmyVernon#PrivacyVsProgress

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Privacy photo by Alan Cleaver via Flickr Creative Commons Progress photo by David Ingram via Flickr Creative Commons

Can they co-exist in the information age?

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Photo by Alan Light via Flickr Creative Commons

This was high technology in the early 1980s.

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Photo by Lindsey Turner via Flickr Creative Commons.

The clerk at the video rental store could have blackmailed some of us.

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Photo by Chris Potter via Flickr Creative Commons

Some people used to pay with something called “cash”.

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Photo by Lindsay Kinkade via Flickr Creative Commons

Admit it, your friends who didn’t want to use E-Zpassbecause of privacy concerns sounded like kooks, right?

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Photo by Tc Morgan via Flickr Creative Commons

Cool, until you saw Tom Cruise get an eye transplant in Minority Report.Oh, sorry. Spoiler alert.

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Photo by M1K3Y via Flickr Creative Commons

Sorry for the Eurythmics earworm I just gave to all of you of a certain age.

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Admit it – you know you wanted it.

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And we got it, albeit a slightly scaled-down version.

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Photo by Jeremy Brooks via Flickr Creative Commons

That’s us. I’m waiting for the BOGO sale.

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Large photo by r2hox via Flickr Creative Commons // Inset photo by puntxote via Flickr Creative Commons

Data – Not just a Star Trek android longing to be human.

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Narrative Clip takes a photo every 30 seconds and clips onto your clothing.

At least you see the Glassholes coming from a mile away

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In the end, who was better off? Ethan Hawke or Jude Law?

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But probably only if the highest bidder uses Square.

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Tell me you wouldn’t want this as your watch, if it actually told time.

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Image by J. Nathan Matias via Flickr Creative Commons

Still, hope is not completely lost.