June 12, 2008

Seth Godin paints a dim picture about privacy and the future.

Privacy Doesn't Exist Anymore - The Expert On Everything - A Novel by Edward David Gil

Described as “Catch-22” meets “Three Days of the Condor,” this techno-thriller with an attitude focuses on realistic technological details and takes the reader on a journey into an uncomfortable future that could easily become a reality.

OVERVIEW

Young Charlie Sanders is offered a six-figure job after only thirty seconds into an interview at Vector Systems, is mistakenly handed the company’s only prototype of a technology that can definitively erase any and all privacy in our society (code-named “Wallace”, It fits like a snug hearing aid and can maintain a conversation), is pursued like prey by more than a few interested parties – including a Governor with presidential ambitions and quite a few U.S. Senators – and begins receiving death-threats from the technology itself, which now has its own ideas.

Privacy Issues In The News

Seth Godin in his post 'The Clowd' paints a dim picture about your privacy and the future. In his post he shows how cell phones are taking our privacy away very quickly.

The problem is there are more and better cell phones with cameras and GPS capabilities. When someone takes a picture of you they will have the exact coordinates of where you were and when. The picture can be uploaded to a website immediately and poof, there goes your privacy with a click of a button.

If you want to take this even further, you need to read Edward David Gil's Novel 'The Expert On Everything' - Privacy Doesn't Exist Anymore. He writes about how a piece of equipment the size of an IPOD® can give the wearer real time information about anyone, anywhere and at any time. That is really scary when you consider what Seth Godin visions.

It becomes a braver new world.

Richard Mathiason

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