Facing Down the Panopticon - Can't Face It Down, Only Say Hello

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/08/12/facing-down-the-panopticon/

This link starts with a reference to communication slabs being installed in NYC.  Then it leaves this reference and goes on to examine spy trade craft.  More, give me more on those strange monoliths appearing in NYC!  Not in the link.  I have to go get it myself.  Not hard to do.

Take your pick of Google hits and learn all about it.

It is free!  Always the best price.  An excellent business model too.  How to give something away for nothing and make money doing it.  Works for Google.

Yes but what is the price?  Free communication opens the door to free information transiting through a third party owned system that mines it all for the gold nuggets.  The generally applicable gold nuggets but the best ones are probably individual unique user identifiable.  Identifiable as to user, place, time, and specific content.  All that content to be transcribed to text as a person speaks so as to be searchable.  Perhaps only on keyword that are captured as spoken.  Perhaps entire text on targeted cell phone and user.  Phone/User being an combination of two unique entity objects each identified by a unique identifier.  An electronic one for the phone and in the best of all worlds a fingerprint as a biometric identifier on a user iPhone.  That biometric identifier is quick and easy if there was a way to detect that the phone was unlocked for use by a finger print rather than the code number.  That biometric identifier is not necessary, just two factor ID because voice print is probably just as good.

Infrastructure.  The set up is all about infrastructure.  And, of course a no bid exclusive franchise from the city of NYC to do it and turn it into a money tree.

https://www.google.com/?client=seamonkey-a#q=wifi+kiosks+nyc:  
7,500 wifi Kiosks is the plan.  But it is like putting up figurative telephone poles.  All kinds of other things can be hung off of the poles.  Like a camera, gun shot detector, shorter range RFID, etc.  Whatever makes money or is government funded so it does not have to make money.  In effect the kiosks are a virtual road for any "vehicles" to travel.   Aha!  Add another add on:  Whatever special needs, hardware and software, it takes to provide services to self driving vehicles!  Self driving bicycle messenger services?  Self driving Segways?

To the point:  Great service but what is the cost?  The hidden cost to the user?  The surveillance price?  We will never know until someone blows the whistle.  Who is CityBridge?  Who are they behind the curtain of "a consortium" of beneficial ownership and partnership?  Probably more partnership because partnership with a business entity is like partnership of two people.  Special lawful access.  Ownership gets the money.  A partnership (at a price) pays off in benefits.

CityBridge:  Looks like LinkNYC for infrastructure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinkNYC  That creates the road network?  Who are they that will travel on it besides the users?  In other words:  Who are the Users of the Users.  Perhaps more precisely:  Who is the top dog ultimate Biggest User in charge of the operating system and therefore its most beneficial owner of the System on which all the applications are run.  It is a new higher order Operating System conceptual structure and everyone know the golden rule:  She who owns the gold rules!  She who owns the operating system, like Microsoft, Apple, or the One True Church with a franchise to the Golden Rule.......Rules All......and sweeps in the winnings off the table.

CityBridge looks like a consortium based on the old Robber Barons business model that has recognized that some degree of division and cooperation is more beneficial than cutthroat competition.  Maybe more of Mafia model being NYC.  Graft was an operating feature, not a bug.

Look at the beautiful new New York here:  http://screenmediadaily.com/bridging-the-digital-divide-with-street-smart-innovation/  Perhaps it should be designed in the retro 30's style.  The new 30's style?
"The LinkNYC network will provide a range of other services, including free phone calls to any where in the United States, a touchscreen tablet interface to access City services, wayfinding, and 911 and 311 calls. It will also serve as free mobile device charging stations."

Touchscreen?  Can a touchscreen capture a fingerprint anywhere on the screen like an iPhone can capture it on a single button?  Every user then gains access via their fingerprint?  Retina scan?

The big lash-up is a Public/Private endeavor!  I can hear the money sloshing in the trough!  Win/Win.  Win for those in Public employment (under the table) and those in Private Employment (over the table payoff).  Public gets the free scraps and thinks it is winning all the benefit.

Holy Cow! (Batman)

Cash Cow!......Forget it Jake.....its NYC.

"Intersection" What kind of player is this?  http://screenmediadaily.com/titan-and-control-group-complete-merger-and-launch-intersection/   "Intersection Brings Scalable Civic Innovation, Technology and Advertising to Cities"  I really like this euphemism: 
"Scalable Civic Innovation" !!!!  Applications without limit that can run on the Operating System!  Why didn't Apple do this!  It is their business model!

This octopus is sprouting arms faster than I can follow.   To get to the heart of this thing I must stay on track and follow up the forks in the road later rather than taking them now.  The heart of the thing is what entity is in control of the Operating System on which all the application programs are going to run to the benefit of the apps developers.....and greater benefit to the System Owner.  Just like the Banking System.  Hey, did I just discover another business model associated strongly with NYC?

Titan and Control Group. 

I knew it!!  Yes, I did but have not said it.  Clue:  The Giant Squid!!!

It is Google!

http://www.businessinsider.com/google-sidewalk-labs-acquires-titan-outdoor-and-control-group-2015-6

Tron!  I have found the core!  I have identified the Master Control Program!

Its Sunday.  I was going to write about this:

"The God Model of the Debt Based Monetary and Financial System vs The Atheist Model of the Debt Free Based Monetary and Financial System"

There is a big twist:  The God Model is the Evil.  The Atheist (Devil Model) is Good.

God gives with a mandatory payback with interest during the time of the loan.  (Don't know what She does with it but loves all that praise and glory.

It was going to be a long good one but I'll get to it on another Sunday.

New business model applicable too to Kiosk wifi taken from this link: credit to Jim http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/08/links-81416.html#comment-2653812

"The evolution of the high tech industry towards a new type of extractive accumulation coincides nicely with the extractive indifference of Wall Street Finance.

As Zuboff has noted in her recent articles on Surveillance Capitalism, the users of anything digital are neither buyers or seller but increasingly the raw material for a new type of manufacturing process which extracts profits from surveillance (the behavioral data of its customers). This new manufacturing process then converts this behavioral data into prediction products and sells it to any actor with an interest in monetizing probablistic information about our behavior.

This new process of extraction is becoming a reality and nicely merges the theoretical ideas of Zuboff and Hudson."

Jim goes on to say so much more in his post comment at Naked Capitalism.  Excellent thought there on a different but related topic.

Creating and owning the  Operating System is the key to the kingdom.  Everything else is Application Program.  http://www.businessinsider.com/google-building-new-operating-system-fuchsia-not-based-on-android-linux-kernel-2016-8

The rule of things is that there are only 6 to 8 and certainly no more than 12 major categories of SuperClass entities into which all things are divided and one thing from which they all derive.  Each has in turn 6 to 8 ChildClasses and so on.  All entities at any level are relational to all other entities and ultimately the one Single Entity from which they all derive.  That entity is, of course, a PlaceHolder but nevertheless must be figuratively there to complete the relational pyramid.  That is its sole purpose for being and sole function.

That PlaceHolder "does" nothing but complete the relational circle.  It is nothing.  It is only a SingularThing with no higher order relationship.  It only relates to itself and its only known implementing action is a recursive relationship to Itself.  It is the ultimate conceptual TopDog chasing its tail.  

What is "It"?  

Anything we want it to be.  It does not matter what the conceptual identity of the PlaceHolder is.  It might be more of and eternal catalyst than anything thing else.  Just the ultimate "Given".  Attempting any detailing of the concept beyond that is just spinning your Mobius Strip wheels on the circle of eternity.  

Put it in gear by engaging with a SomeThingEntity below the TopDogPlaceholder that only knows OneTrick to implement the one relationship to AnyOtherThing and that OnlyOtherThing is itself.

Singularity.  

Wander into eternity chasing that or engage with ChildObjects of TopDog and go somewhere.  Those ChildObjects are the 6-8 Operating systems of our real world to which belongs.  Each is a matter of point of view but that is what organizes it all and gives the model structure for our conceptual world and the means to make decisions.

Money is a conceptual social decision making tool OperatingSystem.

Maybe Everything is just Information.  Like everything is just WaveTheory.  

Own the InformationOperatingSystem and own everything it does in terms of Applications.

Good thing that Google business model is do no Evil.  That was Lucifer's too until that entity placed the crown of TopDog upon its head implementing a SupremeRecursiveRelationship.

Ha!  A higher order Entity put an eternal end to that.  There is no binary at the top.  Lucifer thought it was the BringerOfDawn, the MorningStar.  

Biblical and Mythological stories have much to tell us.  They are stories we tell about ourselves.