{"id":81606,"date":"2015-12-27T10:55:55","date_gmt":"2015-12-27T09:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gerdtestpress.online\/?guid=1d1e21bfdd261906de4bd18807bdf9ec"},"modified":"2015-12-27T10:55:55","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T09:55:55","slug":"techno-social-engineering-humans-becoming-pervasively-programmable-scott-allan-morrison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futuristgerd.com\/pt\/2015\/12\/techno-social-engineering-humans-becoming-pervasively-programmable-scott-allan-morrison\/","title":{"rendered":"Engenharia tecno-social: ser\u00e1 que os seres humanos se v\u00e3o tornar \"program\u00e1veis\"? Scott Allan Morrison via Boing Boing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I just ran across\u00a0the California writer\u00a0and\u00a0journalist Scott Allan Morrison<\/a>\u00a0(who is apparently just launching his new book, entitled “Terms of Use”), and this statement really hit home with me: \u00a0“There would be nothing inherently wrong with this if we could be absolutely certain the companies that control this technology will act only in our best interests. But if not, we could all be susceptible to manipulation by powerful systems we couldn\u2019t possibly understand. Some academics have even raised the specter of techno-social engineering and questioned whether we are moving into an age in which \u201chumans become machine-like and pervasively programmable<\/b><\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

This meme really struck a chord with me: what if we do become programmable<\/em> ? \u00a0 \u00a0Read on:\u00a0Techno-social engineering is freaking insiders out (via Boing Boing)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Scott<\/a>\u00a0goes on to ask\u00a0some very important WHAT IF questions:<\/div>\n
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What if one of the big social networks started offering background checks that predicted and ranked the suitability of job applicants based on each candidate\u2019s data set \u2013 regardless of whether the information was \u201cpublic\u201d or not? \u00a0Many of us are starting to use wearable \"what_if\"<\/a>computers on our wrists. What if your insurance company could marry your biometric data with your health history and genetic profile and was able to, for example, predict you were 10 times more likely than average to suffer a heart attack? Might you one day be required by your insurer to live a certain lifestyle in order to minimize its financial risk?\u00a0Another contact, who did classified work for one government agency (he couldn\u2019t possibly say which one), offered a different but equally chilling twist. Sooner or later, he predicted, we will all come to fully understand that we won\u2019t be able to say, search, browse, buy, like, watch or listen to anything without our actions and thoughts being sliced, diced, and churned through powerful analytical systems. And then what? Will we, creeped out and perhaps a little afraid, start to second-guess our every move? Will we self-censor our speech and behavior to avoid being labeled? \u00a0The profit-driven companies that dominate the Internet insist the trust of their users is of paramount importance to them. And yet, these are often the same companies that keep moving privacy goalposts and rewriting their terms of use (or service) to ensure they enjoy wide latitude and broad legal protection to use our data as they see fit.\u00a0Yes, some of these scenarios seem pretty far out there. But not to some of the Silicon Valley insiders I count as friends and contacts. They understand the consequences \u2013 certainly better than I do \u2013 should these powerful technologies be misused. And I couldn\u2019t have written\u00a0Terms of Use<\/em>\u00a0without them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Scott Allan Morrison's new book “terms of use”<\/a> is in my Kindle pre-order queue. Scott\u00a0was a journalist for almost twenty years, covering politics, business, and technology in Mexico, Canada, and the United States. Morrison arrived in Silicon Valley as a reporter for the Financial Times during the darkest days of the dot-com crash. He later wrote about the Web 2.0 boom for Dow Jones Newswires and the Wall Street Journal. Over the course of a decade, Morrison covered most of the world's top tech companies and chronicled many of Silicon Valley's greatest stories, including the rise of Internet insecurity and the explosion of social media. Before setting his sights on journalism, he spent four years teaching English and traveling in Southeast Asia. He speaks fluent Spanish and very rusty Mandarin. He lives in Northern California with his wife and his hockey sticks.<\/div>\n
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Possibly related: what IF Moore's law does continue?<\/div>\n
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What IF AI gets exponentially better at understanding language, visuality and unstructured data?<\/p>\n

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What IF Google's Quantum Computing experiment will become reality in the near future?<\/a><\/p>\n

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Read my WHAT IF piece on The Internet of Things\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\"Scott Allan Morrison: N\u00e3o haveria nada de intrinsecamente errado nisto se pud\u00e9ssemos ter a certeza absoluta de que as empresas que controlam esta tecnologia actuam apenas no nosso melhor interesse. Mas, se assim n\u00e3o for, podemos ficar todos suscept\u00edveis de ser manipulados por sistemas poderosos que n\u00e3o conseguimos compreender. Alguns acad\u00e9micos chegaram mesmo a levantar o espetro da engenharia tecno-social e questionaram se estar\u00edamos a entrar numa era em que \"os seres humanos tornam-se semelhantes a m\u00e1quinas e s\u00e3o program\u00e1veis de forma generalizada<\/b>.\"<\/p>\n

A engenharia tecno-social est\u00e1 a assustar os informadores
https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2015\/12\/11\/techno-social-engineering-is-f.html<\/a>
via Instapaper<\/div>\n

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Esta \u00e9 uma das minhas principais preocupa\u00e7\u00f5es em rela\u00e7\u00e3o ao progresso tecnol\u00f3gico exponencial <\/div>\n
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