Smart phone magic

Grampa Don

Grampa Don

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We were at a local restaurant last night, and the background music was a female vocalist. My son held up his smart phone for a moment and then showed it to me. It had a photo of the artist and the name of the song. This is getting kind of scary. How long before you can point your phone at a stranger and it gives you their name and personal details? Is that a good or bad thing? Should there be laws preventing this and is this even possible?

Don
 

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The streaming series, Black Mirror, broadcast on Netflix, has episodes like this. In one, young people keep aiming their phones at each other and giving each other some kind of score, based on how good-looking, etc. they are. Their scores are constantly changing and being adjusted, and the world they live in is totally obsessed with them. They can't get into certain places or activities unless their scores are such-and-such.

This is supposed to be science fiction, and yet what you are describing isn't too far away from that. Pretty frightening.
 

It had to be an Android Phone, I have one and Google Photos
does something similar, open a picture of somewhere and the
phone will tell where it is, I have tried it. Google does Android.

Mike.
 
It was an Apple I-phone.

When you get a driver's license they take your picture. That and all the other data on your license, including your finger print, is in a data base. If that data were hacked, sold, or given away, a clever programmer could create an app that would recognize you. It may be that some police departments already have such an app. Shades of 1984.

Don
 
Mike said:
It had to be an Android Phone, I have one and Google Photos
does something similar, open a picture of somewhere and the
phone will tell where it is, I have tried it. Google does Android.

Mike.
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wrong I have it on my iphone..it's an app called ''Soundhound'' I use it a lot when I'm out say in a bar and a nice piece of music is playing that I don;t know the tile of, and it tells me in a few seconds..
 
Aunt Bea said:
Talk about a photo ID!

Like so many things it could be a good thing or a bad thing.

The next app will probably allow you to create a fake identity to replace your real identity.
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Sounds like a movie whose going to direct this can we all get on this too sounds like a money making idea
 
Privacy is an illusion. Yes, 1984 has arrived, albeit incompletely, at this point. Give it another five to ten years, and Big Brother will be constantly looking over your shoulder, day in, day out, whether you like it, or not.

Setting up my new computer was an eye opener: No longer do you have real choices when it comes to giving up your privacy during the setup process. If you don't want to agree to the endless TOS statements that would take months to pour through and totally understand, and that include giving rights to a few mega companies to see what you're doing on your computer, most of the time you're online, incognito mode be dammed, you're not going to be able to finish your setup. The same thing happens with so many smartphones.

"We" wanted ever smarter gizmos in our lives, wanted to make things ever easier, so we could be progressively lazier. We are now, definitely, victims of: Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it!
 
Not to mention all the facial recognition camera systems.

So much of yesterday's SF is today's reality, like it or not.
 
Marlene said:
and, yet, no Jetsons vehicles "jetting" around from place to place :oops: And, both fortunately and unfortunately, none of these predictions for 2020 came true, either. :LOL:

https://bestlifeonline.com/2020-predictions/
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I don't know, the year is still young.

#5 - Already here (Edible Undies - Strawberry is the best. ;))
#6 - A reality for some
#12 - Mar's Rover
#13 - Ronda Rousey (Female MMA fighter)
#16 - I could see this happening
#17 - Maybe coffee and tea, but never wine.
 
Gardenlover said:
I don't know, the year is still young.

#5 - Already here (Edible Undies - Strawberry is the best. ;))
#6 - A reality for some
#12 - Mar's Rover
#13 - Ronda Rousey (Female MMA fighter)
#16 - I could see this happening
#17 - Maybe coffee and tea, but never wine.
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Well, now, maybe I was misreading the underwear thing as I had the impression it wasn't predicting edible underwear that was candy from the start (and I'm going to leave which is the tastiest to you as I can't say as I've had that taste treat yet :p but I thought it was talking about making candy from existing underwear and not underwear that was candy all along - silly me :LOL: Oh, the trials of being a literalist too much of the time.

Ah yes, Ronda and many other body builders and female fighters have that build, but not all of us, for certain - but, I can't complain as I'm a dancer and am a bit on the thinner side than they are.

Personally, I wouldn't like to see voting from home for a couple of reasons. I love the camaraderie of going to the polls and seeing everyone out and about exercising our freedom (whether I agree with their choices or not) but mostly, I don't even quite trust the system we have not to be tampered with so home voting may open up a whole new can of worms - what thinks you?

Aaaack. . .can't do without my tea. How about this: you can have your wine; I'll have my tea, and we'll both be content. ;)
 
Marlene said:
and, yet, no Jetsons vehicles "jetting" around from place to place :oops: And, both fortunately and unfortunately, none of these predictions for 2020 came true, either. :LOL:

https://bestlifeonline.com/2020-predictions/
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Great list Marlene, I read 'em all.


Number 7 is the closest to being correct.. despite the fact that we still use the letters CQ&X. we do now drop unnecessary words and letters as was predicted ..in the way of Text speak ( Not me I have to say) but generally it has become a true prediction
 
hollydolly said:
Great list Marlene, I read 'em all.


Number 7 is the closest to being correct.. despite the fact that we still use the letters CQ&X. we do now drop unnecessary words and letters as was predicted ..in the way of Text speak ( Not me I have to say) but generally it has become a true prediction
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Yeah, I'm not much for text-speak as I spent too many years teaching and grading papers to drop letters, for the most part. Of course, things like LOL, and IMHO seem fine, but I cringed every time I see u for you or r for are . . .old habits die hard, I suppose :LOL:
 
Marlene said:
Yeah, I'm not much for text-speak as I spent too many years teaching and grading papers to drop letters, for the most part. Of course, things like LOL, and IMHO seem fine, but I cringed every time I see u for you or r for are . . .old habits die hard, I suppose :LOL:
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I was never a teacher, but I agree totally, I just think that our education is ingrained in us and it's hard to accept different to that...
 
Tommy said:
California requires fingerprints to get a drivers license? That's a bit frightening!
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California has always required a fingerprint to get a drivers license as far back as I can remember. We used to come out with ink on our thumb, but now they use a scanner. When you go into another room to take the written test, the terminal scans your thumb again to verify who you are.

Don
 
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