Tangent To "Fandom Does Not Use Technology, Technology Uses Fandom"

Here is a real life example of how technology uses fandom (and by extension the rest of the world).  I received a LinkedIn invite from someone I did not know.  I wrote back and asked 'how do we know each other?" She replied: "I emailed you last month from my fandom account asking to access some of your fanvids. LinkedIn has this 'send an invite to everyone in your address book" when you first sign up (it is a click through) and I clicked in  the wrong area." This "send an invite to everyone in your address book" is a feature "offered" by many online services, so consider this a heads up.

So now this fan has 'outed' herself with her real name, where she works etc. Luckily for everyone involved I cannot remember names, places or faces (ask one of my convention roommates who years later loves to tease me because I not only forgot her name, I forgot we ever  had been roommates).

Dear Diary

 Today Shiro climbed into the freezer and would not come out until I lured him with the Cat Dancer pole. He then raced around the room, sending his kibble flying across the carpet (and landing into his water bowl).  He also discovered the joy of sunbeams on the kitchen floor. And he  thinks the plant on the mantelpiece is tasty (it is not).

I would have allowed him to rampage more but he is now "resting" is his Fortress of Solitude because the cleaners are coming by. Thank God.

Feeling Old Today

In the year 2525
If man is still alive
If woman can survive
They may find.....

"In the year 2525 by Zager & Evans" (Watch on YouTube)

"Today's privacy debate will bemuse the denizens of 2025, contended Hal Varian, Google's chief economist.

"By 2025, the current debate about privacy will seem quaint and old-fashioned," he wrote in his survey comments.

"The benefits of cloud-based, personal, digital assistants will be so overwhelming that putting restrictions on these services will be out of the question. Of course, there will be people who choose not to use such services, but they will be a small minority," Varian continued.

"Everyone will expect to be tracked and monitored, since the advantages, in terms of convenience, safety, and services, will be so great," he added......

...The Internet of Things, which will allow everything from toasters to watches to spew data about their users, will exacerbate the tech assault on privacy.

"Every object will become a spy," said Privacy.me's Neivert.

The level of surveillance that exists now will seem pale once everything starts communicating with the Net.

"Once we start wearing the Internet and our appliances are connected to the Internet, the level of observation, data capture and surveillance is going to explode," Pew's Rainie said."

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