Comment Re:Bullshit (Score 1) 209
Rebuild it without the bullshit? I can't see how rebuilding it would get us to a different location - we are here because this is what we wanted to build. Having a life full of regret where you wouldn't live it the same way again is looking back and wishing for a better existence.
Will it morph to go somewhere else because that's what we want? The article argues that there are at least two forces: the walled gardens that offer us candy - and our desire to consume whatever looks new & hot.
And big data will fill the gaps. Plus - we will want this data. It references a BBC claim that by 2019 a large % of us will WANT to use apps that record & archives our spoken conversations. It isn't that some secretive group will build these time lines - WE will do it. WE will want to do it.
It sounds rather dystopian. I've read old (1970's) sci fi novels on similar subjects. Those who have managed to stay out of the system and those who are in it. Even The Matrix wants to extract people from the system - and there's a whole underground world living outside of it.