https://theintercept.com/2018/07/29/firstnet-att-surveillance/
https://www.sierrawireless.com/resources/white-paper/firstnet-ready-mobile-officers/?
The manner in which FirstNet is framed is all about connectivity. Communications. What is really. important is with whom (more accurately with what). While the optics are people connected to people for the purpose of emergency, public safety and the big one....security it is in actual operation the process of connecting people with information data bases and agencies with agencies.
As a communications system FirstNet is not new. The model is military communications. Dedicated systems with levels of information communication security and priority for command and control. Flash message traffic being at the top. Flash not only gets precedence in the network but carries the most important vital information. The information it conveys is what is the payload purpose.
The framing of the network is entirely analogous to turning on the siren to facilitate the movement of the vehicle that delivers the payload/purpose. It is so much easier to frame anything in terms of the isolated action associated with it, what it does, rather than what it is. Most people are action oriented. Their attention is attracted to the action not the object. Keeping an eye on the ball and not the motion is the way to avoid deception. Losing sight of the objective (object) results in a doubling of action effort. Flim flam sleight of hand stuff. Like the Commander in Film Flam. That is the simple secret in deception.
Focus on what a thing is to understand what it really does. What it does is a function of what it is. Function follows form. Most people structure real and abstract relationships primarily in terms of what they do and what they are is a function of what they do.
FirstNet is framed in terms of Action, what it does. To understand it it must be framed in terms of what it is what it does follows. Form first, function follows.
What exactly, objectively is Firstnet???????
It is a network. So is the internet. Ask anyone what the internet is and almost all responses will be in terms of what it does, what it is perceived to do rather than what it is.
https://firstnet.gov/about
"FirstNet is an independent authority within the U.S. Department of Commerce. Authorized by Congress in 2012, its mission is to develop, build and operate the nationwide, broadband network that equips first responders to save lives and protect U.S. communities."
Leadership: https://www.firstnet.gov/about/leadership
This is a Public/Private enterprise. This the the Private .com side of the Public .gov side of Firstnet: https://www.firstnet.com
The FirstNet mission is to deploy, operate, maintain, and improve the first high-speed, nationwide wireless broadband network dedicated to public safety. This reliable, highly secure, interoperable, and innovative public safety communications platform will bring 21st century tools to public safety agencies and first responders, allowing them to get more information quickly and helping them to make faster and better decisions.
Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Responder_Network_Authority
Firstnet Privacy
https://www.rrmediagroup.com/News/NewsDetails/NewsID/16542
Monday, July 30, 2018
Friday, July 20, 2018
Sir Tim Berners-Lee --- Solid!
Tim is doing it!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_(web_decentralization)
Years ago I wrote in this blog...I will have to find the link--about Tim's idea for individuals to control the use of their personal data. A great idea at the time but he turned it over to some graduate student to work on.
The core of the idea was that every person has their own unique identifier as a unique digital entity that relates them to their personal information. They have certain rights to their own information and how it is used connected to their authorization (or not) to use personally related information.
A classic case of what a thing is vs what the thing does.
What personal information is and what can be done with it. What can be done or not done with it is entirely under the control of the individual. They can discover who is doing what with it and weather what information they have related to a person's unique ID was authorized by the person.
When the idea surfaced I was looking at IPv6. Every person in the world could have their own personal secure-IPv6 containing personal private information that they have control to release and/or restrict.
IPv6 identifies a device on the internet. A person with an IPv6 is a unique autonomous device with properties, methods, and messages on the internet.
The use of IPv6 as a personal ID is a no brainer. The internet is built on them!
https://www.quora.com/In-laymans-terms-what-is-the-essence-of-Sir-Tim-Berners-Lees-project-Solid
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/07/the-man-who-created-the-world-wide-web-has-some-regrets
The structure of the system is so obviously based on making a person a device on the internet with a personal IPv6!
It is the Internet of Things!
http://www.solidworks.com/sw/docs/The_Internet_of_Things.pdf?scid=swexpress_0115_infographic_The_Internet_of_Things
HTTPA-- From this blog 4 years ago.....
https://www.zdnet.com/article/transforming-the-web-into-a-httpa-database/
From this blog 4 years ago.....
https://2dollarjefferson.blogspot.com/2015/01/a-person-is-thing-in-internet-of-things.html
HTTPA related from this blog:
https://2dollarjefferson.blogspot.com/2014/06/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11859395
All human beings are collectively the top level SuiperClassObjet fundamental thing in the scheme of the IoT. A singular instance of the Class is a discrete most granular level entity human being.
I would not feel so all alone, everybody must get IPv6'ed!
This is BIG!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_(web_decentralization)
Years ago I wrote in this blog...I will have to find the link--about Tim's idea for individuals to control the use of their personal data. A great idea at the time but he turned it over to some graduate student to work on.
The core of the idea was that every person has their own unique identifier as a unique digital entity that relates them to their personal information. They have certain rights to their own information and how it is used connected to their authorization (or not) to use personally related information.
A classic case of what a thing is vs what the thing does.
What personal information is and what can be done with it. What can be done or not done with it is entirely under the control of the individual. They can discover who is doing what with it and weather what information they have related to a person's unique ID was authorized by the person.
When the idea surfaced I was looking at IPv6. Every person in the world could have their own personal secure-IPv6 containing personal private information that they have control to release and/or restrict.
IPv6 identifies a device on the internet. A person with an IPv6 is a unique autonomous device with properties, methods, and messages on the internet.
The use of IPv6 as a personal ID is a no brainer. The internet is built on them!
https://www.quora.com/In-laymans-terms-what-is-the-essence-of-Sir-Tim-Berners-Lees-project-Solid
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/07/the-man-who-created-the-world-wide-web-has-some-regrets
The structure of the system is so obviously based on making a person a device on the internet with a personal IPv6!
It is the Internet of Things!
http://www.solidworks.com/sw/docs/The_Internet_of_Things.pdf?scid=swexpress_0115_infographic_The_Internet_of_Things
HTTPA-- From this blog 4 years ago.....
https://www.zdnet.com/article/transforming-the-web-into-a-httpa-database/
From this blog 4 years ago.....
https://2dollarjefferson.blogspot.com/2015/01/a-person-is-thing-in-internet-of-things.html
HTTPA related from this blog:
https://2dollarjefferson.blogspot.com/2014/06/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11859395
All human beings are collectively the top level SuiperClassObjet fundamental thing in the scheme of the IoT. A singular instance of the Class is a discrete most granular level entity human being.
I would not feel so all alone, everybody must get IPv6'ed!
This is BIG!
Thursday, July 19, 2018
Oregon Forestland Classification - Wildfire
http://www.projectwildfire.org
Greater Bend Community Wildfire Protection Plan prepared by Project Wildfire:
http://www.projectwildfire.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Bend-CWPP-Full-Final.pdf
Senate Bill 360
https://www.oregon.gov/ODF/Fire/Pages/UrbanInterface.aspx
Chapter 477
https://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/chapter/477
Duty of Owner to Protect Forestland
https://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/477.210
Budgeted Cost to Forester to be a Lien
https://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/477.270
Urban interface Fire Protection
https://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/477.015
Forestland Classification -- (Committee)
https://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/477.015
Foretland Classification
https://www.oregon.gov/ODF/Fire/Pages/ForestlandClassification.aspx
Definition of Forestland - Senate Bill 862
https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/lawsstatutes/2011orLaw0276.html
ORS 526.005(a). note this should be referenced as 526.005.6(a)
https://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/526.005
(a) “Forestland” means any woodland, brushland, timberland, grazing land or clearing that, during any time of the year, contains enough forest growth, slashing or vegetation to constitute, in the judgment of the forester, a fire hazard, regardless of how the land is zoned or taxed.
Greater Bend Community Wildfire Protection Plan prepared by Project Wildfire:
http://www.projectwildfire.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Bend-CWPP-Full-Final.pdf
Senate Bill 360
https://www.oregon.gov/ODF/Fire/Pages/UrbanInterface.aspx
Chapter 477
https://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/chapter/477
Duty of Owner to Protect Forestland
https://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/477.210
Budgeted Cost to Forester to be a Lien
https://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/477.270
Urban interface Fire Protection
https://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/477.015
Forestland Classification -- (Committee)
https://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/477.015
Foretland Classification
https://www.oregon.gov/ODF/Fire/Pages/ForestlandClassification.aspx
Definition of Forestland - Senate Bill 862
https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/lawsstatutes/2011orLaw0276.html
ORS 526.005(a). note this should be referenced as 526.005.6(a)
https://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/526.005
(a) “Forestland” means any woodland, brushland, timberland, grazing land or clearing that, during any time of the year, contains enough forest growth, slashing or vegetation to constitute, in the judgment of the forester, a fire hazard, regardless of how the land is zoned or taxed.
Tuesday, July 17, 2018
USPS "Identify Your Audience"
http://blog.amazingmail.com/blog/direct-mail-marketing-mailing-list
"Identify Your Audience
It’s crucial to understand the importance of the contacts on your direct mail mailing list. The USPS® offers a targeting tool called Every Door Direct Mail®, which requires you to mail to all households in whatever carrier route you choose. This tool is presented as a targeting tool because it gives information on demographics, but it doesn’t actually allow you to target based on certain demographics -- just shows you the statistics for each carrier route. So, you’ll end up spending money on mailing to people who don’t even fit your target audience. If you’re mailing to people who aren’t interested in your brand, that’s a waste of time and money. It’s best to use a tailored, targeted mailing list of customers who fit the demographics you’re seeking to optimize your brand engagement."
This rings a bell!
Back somewhere in this blog I wrote about the numbers added to the zip code and how they related to carrier routes within a city. That is how "Identify Your Audience" gets (connects to) some demographic information data base!
Marketing genius!
Monetize the data base. But this is a quasi governmental entity!
Google search results on "identify. your audience"
https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=usps+%22identify+your+audience%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
https://www.usps.com/business/advertise-with-mail.htm
"Identify Your Audience
It’s crucial to understand the importance of the contacts on your direct mail mailing list. The USPS® offers a targeting tool called Every Door Direct Mail®, which requires you to mail to all households in whatever carrier route you choose. This tool is presented as a targeting tool because it gives information on demographics, but it doesn’t actually allow you to target based on certain demographics -- just shows you the statistics for each carrier route. So, you’ll end up spending money on mailing to people who don’t even fit your target audience. If you’re mailing to people who aren’t interested in your brand, that’s a waste of time and money. It’s best to use a tailored, targeted mailing list of customers who fit the demographics you’re seeking to optimize your brand engagement."
This rings a bell!
Back somewhere in this blog I wrote about the numbers added to the zip code and how they related to carrier routes within a city. That is how "Identify Your Audience" gets (connects to) some demographic information data base!
Marketing genius!
Monetize the data base. But this is a quasi governmental entity!
Google search results on "identify. your audience"
https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=usps+%22identify+your+audience%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
https://www.usps.com/business/advertise-with-mail.htm
USPS Informed Delivery - Email and User Name Please
usps.com/intheknow
https://informeddelivery.usps.com/box/pages/intro/start.action?iom=B807-82ID-USRS-PS-USP-GO-XXX-AW-XX-X-INF&utm_source=google&utm_medium=search&utm_content=b807_82id&utm_campaign=informeddelivery2018&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIhKy137-m3AIVxFx-Ch2sVQbmEAAYASAAEgItkPD_BwE&dclid=CPSi1uO_ptwCFQo-fwode4MHRA
"Millions of people know what is coming in their mailbox before it arrives. You should too."
Amazing but not surprising.
USPS has been collecting and storing, probably giving to another entity to store, addressee and return addresses on mail for a long time. They collect email addresses for notification/tracing mail for special categories.
The system is already in place to connect mail addresses and addresses as well as relate email addresses to mailing addresses. With a web page access and a simple App we can all see our own personal mail coming to us the same way USPS sees and records it.
Amazing but not surprising. It is the last step in connecting mailing addresses to email addresses. Maybe not the last step? Another step coming? The last step will be when a unique email address relates to a unique government ID and an email address is required to sent/receive mail.
Private parcel delivery business require an email address and a user ID and password.
That is the standard way of doing business.
An individual can't do business without it but could opt out.
The final step is no opt out by default. Opt out and an individual cannot even do business with its own government.
(User) Name and (Digital ID) Papers please.
Some state drivers licenses are now digital.
https://www.gemalto.com/govt/traffic/digital-driver-license
It is so easy and convenient for you (and us) to be in the know. Tell us all about yourself, please.
There are some fundamental personal data associations. Physical address is a big one. Email address is another. Connecting with a stored database containing the two data elements creates vital personal information.
This is explains the marketing benefit.
Slick marketing!
https://youtu.be/BNYEaXSZRuw
Since 2014:
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/10/usps-informed-delivery-is-stalkers-dream/
A surveillance dream too.
What I see in this for me: A fantastic opportunity for "do not mail"! I can see the mail coming and I can "delete it" by interception that directs the USPS not to deliver but to dispose in a real, not a digital trash can!
Might be worth something to me in exchange for giving up personal information.
https://informeddelivery.usps.com/box/pages/intro/start.action?iom=B807-82ID-USRS-PS-USP-GO-XXX-AW-XX-X-INF&utm_source=google&utm_medium=search&utm_content=b807_82id&utm_campaign=informeddelivery2018&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIhKy137-m3AIVxFx-Ch2sVQbmEAAYASAAEgItkPD_BwE&dclid=CPSi1uO_ptwCFQo-fwode4MHRA
"Millions of people know what is coming in their mailbox before it arrives. You should too."
Amazing but not surprising.
USPS has been collecting and storing, probably giving to another entity to store, addressee and return addresses on mail for a long time. They collect email addresses for notification/tracing mail for special categories.
The system is already in place to connect mail addresses and addresses as well as relate email addresses to mailing addresses. With a web page access and a simple App we can all see our own personal mail coming to us the same way USPS sees and records it.
Amazing but not surprising. It is the last step in connecting mailing addresses to email addresses. Maybe not the last step? Another step coming? The last step will be when a unique email address relates to a unique government ID and an email address is required to sent/receive mail.
Private parcel delivery business require an email address and a user ID and password.
That is the standard way of doing business.
An individual can't do business without it but could opt out.
The final step is no opt out by default. Opt out and an individual cannot even do business with its own government.
(User) Name and (Digital ID) Papers please.
Some state drivers licenses are now digital.
https://www.gemalto.com/govt/traffic/digital-driver-license
It is so easy and convenient for you (and us) to be in the know. Tell us all about yourself, please.
There are some fundamental personal data associations. Physical address is a big one. Email address is another. Connecting with a stored database containing the two data elements creates vital personal information.
This is explains the marketing benefit.
Slick marketing!
https://youtu.be/BNYEaXSZRuw
Since 2014:
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/10/usps-informed-delivery-is-stalkers-dream/
A surveillance dream too.
What I see in this for me: A fantastic opportunity for "do not mail"! I can see the mail coming and I can "delete it" by interception that directs the USPS not to deliver but to dispose in a real, not a digital trash can!
Might be worth something to me in exchange for giving up personal information.
Friday, July 13, 2018
Tax Havens. Monetary System Design Model That Destroys Them
Fascinating stuff!
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jul/12/nevis-how-the-worlds-most-secretive-offshore-haven-refuses-to-clean-up
When money becomes a discretely and uniquely identifiable object at a single monetary unit of value of one that remains in existence forever (or as long as money is needed as a medium of exchange) and all entities receiving/owning/spending money are also uniquely identified then the cockroaches have no place to hide. Total information about where all the money in the world is and who owns it at any given time in a blockchain of time/ownership/last owner/currentowner.
BlockchainMoney.
BlockchainAccount
BlockchainIdentity of Public/PrivateOwningInterest.
That is the equivalent of bringing in the battleship and blowing them all away!
A very tight monetary system. All data related to all money all the time in real time.
Blockchain everything!
Money is a social decision making tool to allocate resources. A Sociaslist System called Government Of, For and By the people must administer it. People are getting the idea.
https://www.vox.com/first-person/2018/7/12/17562648/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-tammy-duckworth-socialist-democrats-midwest
Like "self driving cars" who is really in control of things? Do we drive or are we all just along for the ride that someone else, a special interest, is driving?
Market analysis: Americans are ripe for the idea of self driving cars. When they are actually driven in accordance with the rules of self driving they are not going to be happy with it.
Freedom should not be sitting in the back seat.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jul/12/nevis-how-the-worlds-most-secretive-offshore-haven-refuses-to-clean-up
When money becomes a discretely and uniquely identifiable object at a single monetary unit of value of one that remains in existence forever (or as long as money is needed as a medium of exchange) and all entities receiving/owning/spending money are also uniquely identified then the cockroaches have no place to hide. Total information about where all the money in the world is and who owns it at any given time in a blockchain of time/ownership/last owner/currentowner.
BlockchainMoney.
BlockchainAccount
BlockchainIdentity of Public/PrivateOwningInterest.
That is the equivalent of bringing in the battleship and blowing them all away!
A very tight monetary system. All data related to all money all the time in real time.
Blockchain everything!
Money is a social decision making tool to allocate resources. A Sociaslist System called Government Of, For and By the people must administer it. People are getting the idea.
https://www.vox.com/first-person/2018/7/12/17562648/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-tammy-duckworth-socialist-democrats-midwest
Like "self driving cars" who is really in control of things? Do we drive or are we all just along for the ride that someone else, a special interest, is driving?
Market analysis: Americans are ripe for the idea of self driving cars. When they are actually driven in accordance with the rules of self driving they are not going to be happy with it.
Freedom should not be sitting in the back seat.
Sunday, July 8, 2018
The Objective of Self Driving Cars
The objective is not to free the driver from control of the car for whatever marketing reason sells the idea.
The objective is to monitor the driver through an internet of things that produce data about the individual driver and all drivers collectively.
That data is input to monitoring systems that generate information about the driver and aloo drivers that becomes valuable. Money is to be made on the value of that information. This objective is what will make driving safer.
China is developing citizen rating systems aimed at control of personal behavior. A government program that horrifies freedom loving Americans. America is developing the same public control systems for the same purpose but in partnership with the private sector.
This link:
https://fair.org/home/nyt-sees-dystopia-in-chinese-surveillance-which-looks-a-lot-like-us-surveillance/
China is doing the same thing: Managing social behavior through creations of Internet of Things sensor systems to record behavior of its citizens. Interesting that the photos that are used in presenting the control objectives of each country and the focus of control for the benefit of society. In China it is photos of people on the street in the frame of government system control. In the USA the focus is on the framework if private enterprise and the focus is on people in automobiles under the guise of self driving cars.
Which country is using technology the best to control behavior. In the USA it is free private enterprise. In China it is the government of the Peoples Republic of China. The difference? The difference in bottom line benefit to each society? The difference in surveillance data collection? USA is surveillance through relationship of people to their devices like cell phones and cars. In China it is more direct surveillance of the individual.
If the objective is to generate driving data at the individual and collective level then public knowledge of that truth is not a good marketing. The objective has to be sold to the public with a marketing strategy that portrays it as something that it is not but something the public will buy: Self Driving and Social Media.
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/07/links-7-11-18.html#comment-2994984
Both countries use Algorithms applied to its population to produce personal data and convert it to personal information related to a unique individual.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/jul/01/how-algorithms-rule-world-nsa
"Self Driving": An Artificial Intelligent thing driving a vehicle. It can be done. It is being done on a test basis on public streets. There is money to be made selling cars that can drive themselves autonomously. It takes time to sell that many new vehicles with that ability. What can be sold soon on a large scale is any ability of a vehicle to perform driving assist functions. Like lane sensing.
Examining lane sensing is an example of a feature that offers the opportunity for managing not just where the vehicle positions itself in a lane of traffic but......this is the big flip side: Where it does not! What is the value of that data?
This link extols the benefits of lane sensing:
https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/todays-lane-keeping-assistance-technology-steers-the-way-to-self-driving-cars/
Lane sensing devices inform the driver of lane departure by various means. Sound warnings or physical warnings such as movement of the steering wheel that can be sensed by the driver's hands. A warning that that also takes control of the vehicle to guide it unless over-ridden by the driver.
Lane sensing produces data about when the vehicle is not in a proper lane situation. That data and its related data elements can be recorded. Lane position is a data element related to safe driving and recording that data about the driver ability to control the vehicle to remain in a lane can be used to evaluate the relative safety with which the driver controls the operation of the vehicle. It puts a policing agent in the passenger seat...or more likely.... under the hood.
Connect lane changing with vehicle speed and a few other data elements like rate of acceleration and it begins to say something about the driver. Connect vehicle speed at the time lane change to posted speed limit and it tells more about the driver. Aggregate data over time it is reveals frequency. Something on a relative scale is produced relating to driver evaluation information. That driver behavior information can be related to an individuals general personal behavior.
It is all about sensors recording and reporting on driver behavior. That is what Progressive Insurance does when it gets an insured driver to put an OBD dongle on their car to get a lower insurance rate.
https://www.progressive.com/auto/discounts/snapshot/
The most scary phrase in the world to a conservative is: We are from the government and we are here to help you. For the American Public it is: We are from (fill in the blank with a private enterprise entity like Finance, Insurance or Real Estate, Walmart or Amazon or Google) and we are here to help you.
This being Sunday I will shift my focus of thinking to a bigger wider scope.
The greatest commandment is:
Love one another!
Fear and Hatred seem to be gaining as the method of manipulating and benefiting from social behavior. They are in fact powerful manipulators.
While more love is a good thing fear and hate focused on social behavior that truly deserves it to correct it is a good thing...done in a compassionate manner for the greater good. The sowing of love where there is hate.
Hating social misbehavior outside the norms, rules and regulations both formalized in law and fundamental norms of human social rights is a good thing. Choosing who and what to hate based on generalities of discrimination is wrong. Hate and fear the behavior not the person is a good thing.
Hate and fear recklessness and lack of responsibility in compliance with of traffic laws and good driving practices is a good thing. Most drivers judge themselves as good drivers. More intelligent than others:
https://www.realclearscience.com/quick_and_clear_science/2018/07/05/65_of_americans_think_they_are_more_intelligent_than_average.html
Certainly true about what they think individually. Certainly true collectively.
It is the small percent related to negligent death and destruction, the small minority of drivers that are to be hated and feared. Sensors and reporting systems that are being developed for self driving vehicles are first and foremost and opportunity for social control of safe driving practices. Private enterprise will identify unsafe drivers and charge them more. Government monitoring control of social driving behavior through identification of the bad driving behavior as a function of purchase of aggregated data from private enterprise identifying the worst patterns of driving habits is a good thing.
Better drivers are necessary on our nations roads. Reducing and eliminating the worst drivers is a way to average better drivers.
I foresee a future reality show that asks the question: Are you a better driver than a self driving AI vehicle? It will be a match between a vehicle that has all the sensors and software of and AI vehicle but not of the actual driving control physical mechanisms. Actual driving control of a human driver will be matched to what the AI sensors and software would have performed.
Let that game begin!
https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/an-ai-learnt-to-drive-an-autonomous-car-in-20-minutes/
The objective is to monitor the driver through an internet of things that produce data about the individual driver and all drivers collectively.
That data is input to monitoring systems that generate information about the driver and aloo drivers that becomes valuable. Money is to be made on the value of that information. This objective is what will make driving safer.
China is developing citizen rating systems aimed at control of personal behavior. A government program that horrifies freedom loving Americans. America is developing the same public control systems for the same purpose but in partnership with the private sector.
This link:
https://fair.org/home/nyt-sees-dystopia-in-chinese-surveillance-which-looks-a-lot-like-us-surveillance/
China is doing the same thing: Managing social behavior through creations of Internet of Things sensor systems to record behavior of its citizens. Interesting that the photos that are used in presenting the control objectives of each country and the focus of control for the benefit of society. In China it is photos of people on the street in the frame of government system control. In the USA the focus is on the framework if private enterprise and the focus is on people in automobiles under the guise of self driving cars.
Which country is using technology the best to control behavior. In the USA it is free private enterprise. In China it is the government of the Peoples Republic of China. The difference? The difference in bottom line benefit to each society? The difference in surveillance data collection? USA is surveillance through relationship of people to their devices like cell phones and cars. In China it is more direct surveillance of the individual.
If the objective is to generate driving data at the individual and collective level then public knowledge of that truth is not a good marketing. The objective has to be sold to the public with a marketing strategy that portrays it as something that it is not but something the public will buy: Self Driving and Social Media.
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/07/links-7-11-18.html#comment-2994984
Both countries use Algorithms applied to its population to produce personal data and convert it to personal information related to a unique individual.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/jul/01/how-algorithms-rule-world-nsa
"Self Driving": An Artificial Intelligent thing driving a vehicle. It can be done. It is being done on a test basis on public streets. There is money to be made selling cars that can drive themselves autonomously. It takes time to sell that many new vehicles with that ability. What can be sold soon on a large scale is any ability of a vehicle to perform driving assist functions. Like lane sensing.
Examining lane sensing is an example of a feature that offers the opportunity for managing not just where the vehicle positions itself in a lane of traffic but......this is the big flip side: Where it does not! What is the value of that data?
This link extols the benefits of lane sensing:
https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/todays-lane-keeping-assistance-technology-steers-the-way-to-self-driving-cars/
Lane sensing devices inform the driver of lane departure by various means. Sound warnings or physical warnings such as movement of the steering wheel that can be sensed by the driver's hands. A warning that that also takes control of the vehicle to guide it unless over-ridden by the driver.
Lane sensing produces data about when the vehicle is not in a proper lane situation. That data and its related data elements can be recorded. Lane position is a data element related to safe driving and recording that data about the driver ability to control the vehicle to remain in a lane can be used to evaluate the relative safety with which the driver controls the operation of the vehicle. It puts a policing agent in the passenger seat...or more likely.... under the hood.
Connect lane changing with vehicle speed and a few other data elements like rate of acceleration and it begins to say something about the driver. Connect vehicle speed at the time lane change to posted speed limit and it tells more about the driver. Aggregate data over time it is reveals frequency. Something on a relative scale is produced relating to driver evaluation information. That driver behavior information can be related to an individuals general personal behavior.
It is all about sensors recording and reporting on driver behavior. That is what Progressive Insurance does when it gets an insured driver to put an OBD dongle on their car to get a lower insurance rate.
https://www.progressive.com/auto/discounts/snapshot/
The most scary phrase in the world to a conservative is: We are from the government and we are here to help you. For the American Public it is: We are from (fill in the blank with a private enterprise entity like Finance, Insurance or Real Estate, Walmart or Amazon or Google) and we are here to help you.
This being Sunday I will shift my focus of thinking to a bigger wider scope.
The greatest commandment is:
Love one another!
Fear and Hatred seem to be gaining as the method of manipulating and benefiting from social behavior. They are in fact powerful manipulators.
While more love is a good thing fear and hate focused on social behavior that truly deserves it to correct it is a good thing...done in a compassionate manner for the greater good. The sowing of love where there is hate.
Hating social misbehavior outside the norms, rules and regulations both formalized in law and fundamental norms of human social rights is a good thing. Choosing who and what to hate based on generalities of discrimination is wrong. Hate and fear the behavior not the person is a good thing.
Hate and fear recklessness and lack of responsibility in compliance with of traffic laws and good driving practices is a good thing. Most drivers judge themselves as good drivers. More intelligent than others:
https://www.realclearscience.com/quick_and_clear_science/2018/07/05/65_of_americans_think_they_are_more_intelligent_than_average.html
Certainly true about what they think individually. Certainly true collectively.
It is the small percent related to negligent death and destruction, the small minority of drivers that are to be hated and feared. Sensors and reporting systems that are being developed for self driving vehicles are first and foremost and opportunity for social control of safe driving practices. Private enterprise will identify unsafe drivers and charge them more. Government monitoring control of social driving behavior through identification of the bad driving behavior as a function of purchase of aggregated data from private enterprise identifying the worst patterns of driving habits is a good thing.
Better drivers are necessary on our nations roads. Reducing and eliminating the worst drivers is a way to average better drivers.
I foresee a future reality show that asks the question: Are you a better driver than a self driving AI vehicle? It will be a match between a vehicle that has all the sensors and software of and AI vehicle but not of the actual driving control physical mechanisms. Actual driving control of a human driver will be matched to what the AI sensors and software would have performed.
Let that game begin!
https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/an-ai-learnt-to-drive-an-autonomous-car-in-20-minutes/
Saturday, July 7, 2018
Insurance and Self Driving Cars
https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/insurance/self-driving-cars-end-auto-insurance/
https://www2.deloitte.com/insights/us/en/focus/future-of-mobility/mobility-ecosystem-future-of-auto-insurance.html?id=us:2ps:3gl:confidence:eng:cons:11117:na:na:7NwHElE2:1077669454:270785524960:b:Future_of_Mobility:Auto_Insurance_BMM:nb
Where is the money to be made in the future of car insurance when self driving cars reduce the cost of death and destruction on the road?
The same place where money is increasingly being made today: Information.
Information about people in cars. Who they are. Were they go. Why they go there. What can be sold to them based on data mining the activity that takes them from point A to point B and selling that information at the highest market price to government and private enterprise.
https://www2.deloitte.com/insights/us/en/focus/future-of-mobility/mobility-ecosystem-future-of-auto-insurance.html?id=us:2ps:3gl:confidence:eng:cons:11117:na:na:7NwHElE2:1077669454:270785524960:b:Future_of_Mobility:Auto_Insurance_BMM:nb
Where is the money to be made in the future of car insurance when self driving cars reduce the cost of death and destruction on the road?
The same place where money is increasingly being made today: Information.
Information about people in cars. Who they are. Were they go. Why they go there. What can be sold to them based on data mining the activity that takes them from point A to point B and selling that information at the highest market price to government and private enterprise.
Self Driving Cars - Management of Social Behavior
As I often do: Move the conclusion to the top after I have reached it: How to sell slavery to slaves for profit. That is what self driving cars is all about. It is like selling the death and destruction of war to the public. There is huge profit in it. It simply takes the business model and changes the overt marketing angle to one of saving lives and property destruction.
Simple manipiulation. As easy as getting imbeciles elected for private profit.
http://rodneybrooks.com/bothersome-bystanders-and-self-driving-cars/
Just a link of minor importance to the idea of self driving cars but an important indicator of the social problem involved in "engineering society". That is the primary challenge of self driving cars, not the development of AI technology and systems to put self driving cars on the road.
Making the world safe for self driving cars to make the world safer for people? A noble objective applying technology to the problem of death and destruction on the road. If everyone drove with the same algorithm that AI is applying to the design of a self driving car systems then there would be no real need for self driving cars.
The problem is that government cannot control the people it governs to the extent that they will all drive like an AI controlled car. Attempts to do that will meet not only with resistance but rebellion. It is on a level solving the gun problem by taking away guns from the hands of the public. It is taking away the steering wheel to solve the problem.
The automobile industry started at the beginning of the 20th century has made a lot of money for a lot of people in the Industrial Age. Money made on the " hardware" thing we drive. The 21st century is the Information Age. An equal amount of money is going to be made on the software side of the thing called an automobile replacing the not only the "software" control resident in the heads of 20th century drivers but the entire hardware and related vehicle driving controlling systems of the 20th century.
20th century vehicle control driving systems? It is a legacy system from a previous century to which technology was increasingly applied throughout the century to the physical system of roads and supporting infastructure related to the automobile that extended to an entire business industry of goods and services as well as regulatory control. Regulatory control from control of the driver behind the wheel to private and public regulatory control of things related to the auto industry.
The hardware and broad hardware/software infrastructure of the auto industry has reached "peak control. The last thing left to control for the purpose of business profit is not the automobile but the driver.
It is ironic that the fundamental focus of AI controlled self driving cars is the profit to be made by controlling the driver of the vehicle! The challenge is not so much the hardware and software to control a car but the creation and establishment of social controls applied to the public that result in profit to business that create the social controls.
What are those business sectors? Insurance for example. Privatized government functions for example related to transportation systems such as the collection of gas taxes by states. That function to be replaced by a revenue stream managed by private enterprise based on miles driven to fund the transportation system as well as fund profit to business enterprise that performs this function, extracts its fee and passes what is left to state and federal government agencies with a business model of progressively taking over all the functions of those agencies.
The big problem facing the new auto "Information Age" business model is how to get the public to "buy" this new model!
Marketing of course. Better and new! Better for you!
Marketing has reached peak marketing when it can successfully sell slavery. People become slaves to an extraction system,
How to manipulate people? Make them dependent on things they cannot do without.
Make people dependent on their manipulated needs by shaping those needs. Emotional as well as physical dependence. The most efficient manipulation is to induce a cat to skin itself for the benefit of an entity that does not have to skin it to get the benefit.
Simple manipiulation. As easy as getting imbeciles elected for private profit.
http://rodneybrooks.com/bothersome-bystanders-and-self-driving-cars/
Just a link of minor importance to the idea of self driving cars but an important indicator of the social problem involved in "engineering society". That is the primary challenge of self driving cars, not the development of AI technology and systems to put self driving cars on the road.
Making the world safe for self driving cars to make the world safer for people? A noble objective applying technology to the problem of death and destruction on the road. If everyone drove with the same algorithm that AI is applying to the design of a self driving car systems then there would be no real need for self driving cars.
The problem is that government cannot control the people it governs to the extent that they will all drive like an AI controlled car. Attempts to do that will meet not only with resistance but rebellion. It is on a level solving the gun problem by taking away guns from the hands of the public. It is taking away the steering wheel to solve the problem.
The automobile industry started at the beginning of the 20th century has made a lot of money for a lot of people in the Industrial Age. Money made on the " hardware" thing we drive. The 21st century is the Information Age. An equal amount of money is going to be made on the software side of the thing called an automobile replacing the not only the "software" control resident in the heads of 20th century drivers but the entire hardware and related vehicle driving controlling systems of the 20th century.
20th century vehicle control driving systems? It is a legacy system from a previous century to which technology was increasingly applied throughout the century to the physical system of roads and supporting infastructure related to the automobile that extended to an entire business industry of goods and services as well as regulatory control. Regulatory control from control of the driver behind the wheel to private and public regulatory control of things related to the auto industry.
The hardware and broad hardware/software infrastructure of the auto industry has reached "peak control. The last thing left to control for the purpose of business profit is not the automobile but the driver.
It is ironic that the fundamental focus of AI controlled self driving cars is the profit to be made by controlling the driver of the vehicle! The challenge is not so much the hardware and software to control a car but the creation and establishment of social controls applied to the public that result in profit to business that create the social controls.
What are those business sectors? Insurance for example. Privatized government functions for example related to transportation systems such as the collection of gas taxes by states. That function to be replaced by a revenue stream managed by private enterprise based on miles driven to fund the transportation system as well as fund profit to business enterprise that performs this function, extracts its fee and passes what is left to state and federal government agencies with a business model of progressively taking over all the functions of those agencies.
The big problem facing the new auto "Information Age" business model is how to get the public to "buy" this new model!
Marketing of course. Better and new! Better for you!
Marketing has reached peak marketing when it can successfully sell slavery. People become slaves to an extraction system,
How to manipulate people? Make them dependent on things they cannot do without.
Make people dependent on their manipulated needs by shaping those needs. Emotional as well as physical dependence. The most efficient manipulation is to induce a cat to skin itself for the benefit of an entity that does not have to skin it to get the benefit.
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