Ubiquitous Surveillance
Nov. 22nd, 2011 10:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sub_dividedThis is an awesome academic paper. It's like reading Japanese science fiction.
To wit!
"If the relational databases are the brains of the system, RFID tags are the legs. As RFID moves into the environment and become pervasive, it will in my view pose unprecedented challenges and opportunities to humans because they will be moving within an intelligent and context-aware environment, especially when RFID technology is linked with embedded sensors and actuators as the Japanese government is already doing."
...reminds me of Loups Garous, where the characters all carry around portable "monitors" that collect data on everything they do (and later in the paper the author talks about how the "brain" databases could be linked together into one, all-seeing Big Brother-ish database, which is the plot of Loups Garous);
"as Neil Gershenfeld says we are in the midst of creating an Internet of things. Most of the communication will be automated between intelligent devices. Humans will intervene only in a tiny fraction of that flow of communication. Most of it will go on unsensed and really unknown by humans."
...reminds me of Yukikaze which is about a war between alien AI and human AI, with humans themselves increasingly relegated to the background;
"Most RFIDs are encoded with a 10-digit number hardcoded onto the chip; if you do the maths with the permutations, a 96-bit chip has enough permutations uniquely to identify every manufactured object on the planet, about 80,000 trillion (or 2 to the exponent 96). So that means that we can now give an individual identity to everything in the world that is built as opposed to being natural."
...reminds me of how every physical object has a unique code in Homestuck;
AND FINALLY:
"What has happened is that the RFID tags themselves are very simple. They are much simpler than any AI system that I know about. That’s their beauty. They can now be manufactured as cheaply as 2 cents per tag. Many passive tags are about the size of a grain of rice. Hitachi is working on tags that are much smaller. And because the brains are separate from the legs, these tags are cheap and pervasive, and can be embedded in everything...
"Absolutely, because these tags can be embedded in shoes, and readers can be in the environment. So you put your shoes on and enter a store and now a reader knows who you are and what your purchasing record is – it knows if you are a cheapskate or a big spender."
...is cheaper than the biometric eye scanners in Minority Report.
I know we're not really there yet, but I enjoy this kind of SF stuff XD.
To wit!
"If the relational databases are the brains of the system, RFID tags are the legs. As RFID moves into the environment and become pervasive, it will in my view pose unprecedented challenges and opportunities to humans because they will be moving within an intelligent and context-aware environment, especially when RFID technology is linked with embedded sensors and actuators as the Japanese government is already doing."
...reminds me of Loups Garous, where the characters all carry around portable "monitors" that collect data on everything they do (and later in the paper the author talks about how the "brain" databases could be linked together into one, all-seeing Big Brother-ish database, which is the plot of Loups Garous);
"as Neil Gershenfeld says we are in the midst of creating an Internet of things. Most of the communication will be automated between intelligent devices. Humans will intervene only in a tiny fraction of that flow of communication. Most of it will go on unsensed and really unknown by humans."
...reminds me of Yukikaze which is about a war between alien AI and human AI, with humans themselves increasingly relegated to the background;
"Most RFIDs are encoded with a 10-digit number hardcoded onto the chip; if you do the maths with the permutations, a 96-bit chip has enough permutations uniquely to identify every manufactured object on the planet, about 80,000 trillion (or 2 to the exponent 96). So that means that we can now give an individual identity to everything in the world that is built as opposed to being natural."
...reminds me of how every physical object has a unique code in Homestuck;
AND FINALLY:
"What has happened is that the RFID tags themselves are very simple. They are much simpler than any AI system that I know about. That’s their beauty. They can now be manufactured as cheaply as 2 cents per tag. Many passive tags are about the size of a grain of rice. Hitachi is working on tags that are much smaller. And because the brains are separate from the legs, these tags are cheap and pervasive, and can be embedded in everything...
"Absolutely, because these tags can be embedded in shoes, and readers can be in the environment. So you put your shoes on and enter a store and now a reader knows who you are and what your purchasing record is – it knows if you are a cheapskate or a big spender."
...is cheaper than the biometric eye scanners in Minority Report.
I know we're not really there yet, but I enjoy this kind of SF stuff XD.