The IoT and those wondrous self driving cars. It all sounds so good. No worries as you are shuttled across town gleefully texting away.
"Take me to John's house", "Stop at the store for beer", "I feel like pizza tonight". Text, text, play a game on the way.
Doesn't that sound great?
Forget about the massive infrastructure that does not yet exist, forget about the massive costs that the companies will shove onto you. You're used to that scam by now.
Instead, think for just a minute about how all of those vehicles are going to know where not just they, but where all the other vehicles are. They will need to "talk" to each other. How will they do that? Hmmm. That's an easy one to answer. They will all be on the same network, right?
And who will own that network? A monopoly. Think you have little to no choice now with ISP's? True they do all communicate but they are more or less non lethal stationary PC's, tablets and cell phones that do not carry the living from point A to point B.
Chrome and Explorer and Foxfire do the same thing. Sort of. (I'm leaving the lesser used guy out on purpose) They do not always get along. Now if we all are using self driving cars and sharing the road with public transportation that you know will be interconnected (True AI controlled vehicles would be impractical in a fleet scenario) there will have to be a central logistics control point using a single browser and a single ISP. That point would be owned and under control by the monopoly that now has an almost complete control over your every move.
That monopoly whether corporate or government will own you and know every place you go. Where, when and for how long you stayed.
The dream of every marketer. The wet dream of every dictator.
Privacy is over rated anyway. Right?
did I piss you off? I will.
