I had to fix a dead vid just to get enough power points to *quality this. Everyone's connected, everyone's surveilled. That's the price of safety, kids! 1984 isn't the past, it's the dystopianfuturetoday!

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by rasch187.

Dystopianfuturetoday should have posted this vid!

So...This is a documentary...right?

My Youtube Comments on this video.
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Great, but where is the end game? Your film, while a short film, seems to me a cop out, ignorant of any actual ramifications of pervasive invasions of privacy. I could always just stop going online, and stop doing embarrasing things outside for all the cameras in the world to see. Where are the real world hurtful consequences of the issues raised herein? Thanks for reading.
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Pretty much, my question is, what is the danger of Data, and how can an organization use data which can be easily falsified by the user, when that user feels that the data is being used against them? Then how does the entity sift through relevant data to find the truth? Guess what? I'm a Christian. I'm an a
Atheist. I'm a 28 year old black man. I live in California. <---- All things posted to the net on youtube comments, only 25% correct. Use it against me?

Bah, fear of technology is the same old fear that most people have; fear of change. This is over the top - security follows the tech-curve as well and as soon as mandatory bio-ID is implemented along with your breakable password, it's practically impossible to break it.

Embrace your blue, red, yellow, and green future, it's coming whether you want to or not.

"The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. [...] [T]he capacity to assert social and political control over the individual will vastly increase. It will soon be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and to maintain up-to-date, complete files, containing even most personal information about the health or personal behavior of the citizen in addition to more customary data. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities." - Zbignjev Brzezinski

I wish I could downvote.

Maybe the result of this will be to relax the current stupid mores in society. Today, people are constrained by moral rules that go against human nature, so they are constantly broken. However, for most people, they are relatively easy to conceal.

When we are all living in glass houses, noone will benefit by enforcement of mores.

So, a couple of generations from now, people may be alot less repressed, and our current concept of privacy will be a strange one to them.

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I loved this. Most inhuman human voice ever.

>> ^dag:
I loved this. Most inhuman human voice ever.


If you ask me, dag, he was trying his absolute best - perhaps by direction - to sound like dexter morgan in one of his monologues.

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^I was getting a bit of an AI John Conner vibe.

I like all the haters for this video. Just because the video defiles their beloved google. They will be the first to subscribe to such an invasion of privacy.

The Google founders would enjoy and understand the rationale behind making this video. They have an informal slogan for their company "Don't be evil" and I'm sure would pertain to something like this....

Please remember that I said this as I need more points in the search index...

The voice reminded me of the Anonymous vids. I suppose that was completely computer generated though.

Anyway, cool short. But nothing really new except the google angle. New fears, same as the old fears.

I should get some shares in Google

I, for one, welcome our new Google overlords (no really, i do).

Actually i think this movie is trying to emulate Animatrix: The Second Renaissance videos.
Same style of speech, voice distortions, the way footage covered by distortion effects

It's really trendy to fear Google these days, isn't it?

In a world with companies directly and indirectly exploiting their customers, secretly collecting data and constantly reorganizing their business to maximize profit, the company that comes up front and tells you "we're gathering data" gets demonized for it.

Never mind that they're not specifically collecting data about you. Never mind that they make some of the best products out there, and they're usually free, with a few exceptions. Never mind that many other companies have identical services and collect the same data, and just neglect to tell you about it.

Never mind that they actually release their own data, free of charge, so for example, researchers can do things like track Swine Flu (H1N1) by using Google Trends.

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In my line of work I use Google products on a daily basis.

My company emails are on Gmail, which saves us absurd amounts of money not having to house a couple of Exchange servers in-house, be it physical server cost, electricity cost, Exchange and Windows Server costs, backup utility and storage costs and the list goes on. Free.

Every website we develop uses Google Analytics to track their statistics. It used to cost us in licensing, storage and server load with our old Analytics software. Now it's just a few lines of code and all the actual work is done on Google's servers. Videosift uses it as well, FYI. Just look through the source code and search for "ga.js". Free.

Most of our commercial websites have Google ads in them. They send us money, so Less than Free. It's not exactly a service they provide, but it does help pay those server-hosting bills.

I use Google maps whenever I need to go somewhere new, since it's hands down the best mapping service available to me. Free.

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I sort of went on and on there, but to me, this video is very very close to saying "Death Panels".

The voice was not computer generated, just a very talented voice over with occasional distortion effects added.

Those of you who think this is some kind of anti-Google screed... well, I'd say watch it again

had to stop watching. creep factor 150%

>> ^davethegame:
Those of you who think this is some kind of anti-Google screed... well, I'd say watch it again

I did. It still sounds and feels like every anti-Google speech I've heard in the past few years.
If my internet sarcasm detector failed here, correct me, please.

It was definitely an anti-Google rant, how it could be taken as anything else?

When they have enough detectors aimed at the real world, everything can and will be classified by metadata and stored in massive indexed databases.

My response is: so what? Draw your blinds.

Well, I wrote it and I didn't see it as ranting against Google at all (and like other people, heavily rely on Google for tons of things including my livelihood and have no problem with that), but YMMV I suppose. Thanks for watching.

I can't wait for Google to start posting colonoscopy pics of people. Then individuals will be able to see what their own rectum looks like, without actually having to have their head up their own ass.

It's hard to differentiate parody from fundamentalism. It's well written and accurate.. it will turn out much like this in my opinion, but that's not something to be afraid of. Good on ya, mate.

>> ^davethegame:
Well, I wrote it and I didn't see it as ranting against Google at all (and like other people, heavily rely on Google for tons of things including my livelihood and have no problem with that), but YMMV I suppose. Thanks for watching.

I guess social liberals are more likely to fear the ficticious evil of big companies than the actual evil of big governments.

>> ^gtjwkq:
I guess social liberals are more likely to fear the ficticious evil of big companies than the actual evil of big governments.


Fictitious? What fuckin' world have -you- been living in?

Union Carbide, Blackwater, Monsanto, Big Tobacco, Enron, Worldcom...just to name a few of the bigger evildoers out there. There are, of course, literally thousands of other examples.

Holy crap, it's already happening!

>> ^Stormsinger:
Fictitious? What fuckin' world have -you- been living in?
Union Carbide, Blackwater, Monsanto, Big Tobacco, Enron, Worldcom...just to name a few of the bigger evildoers out there. There are, of course, literally thousands of other examples.

I was referring to Google. That list is insignificant compared to the sheer amount of evildoing big governments have perpetrated throughout human history.

And please don't conveniently forget to mention which of these companies had ties to government.