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southern MN | Old series, the actual scary ones.
Along the lines of Big Brother (the novel "1984") looking into the future is always fun to spin, and its only interesting/ compelling if you spin it in a bad way....
But, only of late do we have the technology to store and sort the massive amount of data these gizmos can collect on us. Locations, spending habits, personal habits, legal files, and the many volunteered info directly connected to an individual.
Over at YTmag a fella put up a map of the last 400 places he's been, as his cell phone tracks his location. Was a feature he really didnt know was there.
Govt mandates some of this info is gathered. I'm likely more concerned about the private use of that data, and how it can be taken to extremes. Tho big govt keeps getting more bigger, and politics has always been social mob oriented, not so good to interface a mob mentality with a very deep personal database.....
In 1963 when that episode came out, it was scary how such a device could follow a person! Of course that wasn't really possible, so it made good FICTION back then.
Today, we aren't very far away from interconnected computer data networks removing the barriers of that amount of data collection and orginization.
Hum.
I'm not wearing my tin foil hat just yet and the camera I set up in the kitchen is beaming photos 24-7 to somewhere on the Internet (just like the device in "1984"?)....
It was just something to see the subject of the episode so closely follow the darker side of Facebook and other social pages and international govt supported hacking of the Internet. From over 50 years ago.
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The Outer Limits - O.B.I.T. episode - govt tracking
