Showing posts with label Internet of Things (IoT). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Internet of Things (IoT). Show all posts
Friday, 26 July 2019
Saturday, 10 November 2018
5G Corporate Grail. Microwave Radiation
Global Research
Joyce Nelson
There’s a lot of hype about #5G, the fifth-generation wireless technology that is being rolled out in various “5G test beds” in major cities including Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa, New York, and Los Angeles. But it’s hard to see why we should be excited. Proponents talk about the facilitation of driverless vehicles and car-to-car “talk,” better Virtual Reality equipment, and, of course, “The Internet of Things” (IoT) – the holy grail of Big Tech that is just vague enough to sound sort of promising.
But when it comes to specifics, there seems to be a lot of hot air in the IoT bag.
For example, in March 2018, Canada’s Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains, while pumping $400 million into 5G test beds, reportedly “gushed” about IoT applications, including “refrigerators that monitor food levels and automatically order fresh groceries.”
Then there is the 5G proponent who enthused to CBC News (March 19, 2018) about “augmented reality headsets” being replaced by “a pair of normal looking glasses,” which everyone would be wearing in 10 years. Those glasses would “automatically recognize everyone you meet, and possibly be able to overlay their name in your field of vision, along with a link to their online profile.”
Apparently, the future human will be too brain-addled to make a grocery list or remember the names of acquaintances… which may not be the image that 5G proponents are hoping for.
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Joyce Nelson
There’s a lot of hype about #5G, the fifth-generation wireless technology that is being rolled out in various “5G test beds” in major cities including Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa, New York, and Los Angeles. But it’s hard to see why we should be excited. Proponents talk about the facilitation of driverless vehicles and car-to-car “talk,” better Virtual Reality equipment, and, of course, “The Internet of Things” (IoT) – the holy grail of Big Tech that is just vague enough to sound sort of promising.
But when it comes to specifics, there seems to be a lot of hot air in the IoT bag.
For example, in March 2018, Canada’s Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains, while pumping $400 million into 5G test beds, reportedly “gushed” about IoT applications, including “refrigerators that monitor food levels and automatically order fresh groceries.”
Then there is the 5G proponent who enthused to CBC News (March 19, 2018) about “augmented reality headsets” being replaced by “a pair of normal looking glasses,” which everyone would be wearing in 10 years. Those glasses would “automatically recognize everyone you meet, and possibly be able to overlay their name in your field of vision, along with a link to their online profile.”
Apparently, the future human will be too brain-addled to make a grocery list or remember the names of acquaintances… which may not be the image that 5G proponents are hoping for.
“There are thousands of published studies that show that even low levels of microwave radiation do cause a biological effect.”Amidst all the #5G hype, it’s rare to find a blunt statement like this one from Eluxe Magazine’s Jody McCutcheon: “Until now mobile broadband networks have been designed to meet the needs of people. But 5G has been created with machines’ needs in mind, offering low-latency, high-efficiency data transfer…. We humans won’t notice the difference [in data transfer speeds], but it will permit machines to achieve near-seamless communication. Which in itself may open a whole Pandora’s box of trouble for us – and our planet.”
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Thursday, 30 November 2017
Data is the New Oil
corbettreport
SHOW NOTES AND MP3: https://www.corbettreport.com/?p=25096
In this follow up to Why Big Oil Conquered the World, James further
explores the concept of technocracy. If "Data is the New Oil" then what
does that tell us about the 21st century oligarchy and the world that
they are creating? And, once we understand the technocratic prison they
are creating, how do we escape it? Don't miss this important episode of
The Corbett Report podcast.
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See also: Technocracy I
Friday, 17 March 2017
The Whole POINT of the Internet of Things Is So Big Brother Can Spy On You
Washington's Blog
No One Wants the Internet of Things …
[...]
The government is already spying on us through spying on us through our computers, phones, cars, buses, streetlights, at airports and on the street, via mobile scanners and drones, through our credit cards and smart meters (see this), television, doll, and in many other ways.
The CIA wants to spy on you through your dishwasher and other “smart” appliances. Slate reported in 2012:
No One Wants the Internet of Things …
[...]
The government is already spying on us through spying on us through our computers, phones, cars, buses, streetlights, at airports and on the street, via mobile scanners and drones, through our credit cards and smart meters (see this), television, doll, and in many other ways.
The CIA wants to spy on you through your dishwasher and other “smart” appliances. Slate reported in 2012:
Watch out: the CIA may soon be spying on you—through your beloved, intelligent household appliances, according to Wired.In early March, at a meeting for the CIA’s venture capital firm In-Q-Tel, CIA Director David Petraeus reportedly noted that “smart appliances” connected to the Internet could someday be used by the CIA to track individuals. If your grocery-list-generating refrigerator knows when you’re home, the CIA could, too, by using geo-location data from your wired appliances, according to SmartPlanet.“The current ‘Internet of PCs’ will move, of course, toward an ‘Internet of Things’—of devices of all types—50 to 100 billion of which will be connected to the Internet by 2020,” Petraeus said in his speech. He continued:
Items of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio-frequency identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy harvesters—all connected to the next-generation Internet using abundant, low cost, and high-power computing—the latter now going to cloud computing, in many areas greater and greater supercomputing, and, ultimately, heading to quantum computing.Read more
Tuesday, 3 February 2015
Digital Electronic “Internet of Things”(IoT) and “Smart Grid Technologies” to Fully Eviscerate Privacy
James F. Tracey
Global Research
The “Internet of Things” (IoT) and Smart Grid technologies will together be aggressively integrated into the developed world’s socioeconomic fabric with little-if-any public or governmental oversight. This is the overall opinion of a new report by the Federal Trade Commission, which has announced a series of “recommendations” to major utility companies and transnational corporations heavily invested in the IoT and Smart Grid, suggesting that such technologies should be rolled out almost entirely on the basis of “free market” principles so as not to stifle “innovation.”[1]
As with the Food and Drug Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency, the FTC functions to provide the semblance of democratic governance and studied concern as it allows corporate monied interests and prerogatives to run roughshod over the body politic.
The IoT refers to all digital electronic and RFID-chipped devices wirelessly connected to the internet. The number of such items has increased dramatically since the early 2000s. In 2003 an estimated 500 million gadgets were connected, or about one for every twelve people on earth. By 2015 the number has grown 50 fold to an estimated 25 billion, or 3.5 units per person. By 2020 the IoT is expected to double the number of physical items it encompasses to 50 billion, or roughly 7 per individual.[2]
The IoT is developing in tandem with the “Smart Grid,” comprised of tens of millions of wireless transceivers (a combination cellular transmitter and receiver) more commonly known as “smart meters.” Unlike conventional wireless routers, smart meters are regarded as such because they are equipped to capture, store, and transmit an abundance of data on home energy usage with a degree of precision scarcely imagined by utility customers. On the contrary, energy consumers are typically appeased with persuasive promotional materials from their power company explaining how smart meter technology allows patrons to better monitor and control their energy usage.
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Global Research
The “Internet of Things” (IoT) and Smart Grid technologies will together be aggressively integrated into the developed world’s socioeconomic fabric with little-if-any public or governmental oversight. This is the overall opinion of a new report by the Federal Trade Commission, which has announced a series of “recommendations” to major utility companies and transnational corporations heavily invested in the IoT and Smart Grid, suggesting that such technologies should be rolled out almost entirely on the basis of “free market” principles so as not to stifle “innovation.”[1]
As with the Food and Drug Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency, the FTC functions to provide the semblance of democratic governance and studied concern as it allows corporate monied interests and prerogatives to run roughshod over the body politic.
The IoT refers to all digital electronic and RFID-chipped devices wirelessly connected to the internet. The number of such items has increased dramatically since the early 2000s. In 2003 an estimated 500 million gadgets were connected, or about one for every twelve people on earth. By 2015 the number has grown 50 fold to an estimated 25 billion, or 3.5 units per person. By 2020 the IoT is expected to double the number of physical items it encompasses to 50 billion, or roughly 7 per individual.[2]
The IoT is developing in tandem with the “Smart Grid,” comprised of tens of millions of wireless transceivers (a combination cellular transmitter and receiver) more commonly known as “smart meters.” Unlike conventional wireless routers, smart meters are regarded as such because they are equipped to capture, store, and transmit an abundance of data on home energy usage with a degree of precision scarcely imagined by utility customers. On the contrary, energy consumers are typically appeased with persuasive promotional materials from their power company explaining how smart meter technology allows patrons to better monitor and control their energy usage.
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Monday, 23 June 2014
Traffic lights, fridges and how they've all got it in for us
Tom Webster
The Register
No doubt many of The Reg’s readers are tired of the term “the Internet of Things”. It is both a nebulous term and a vague idea. What it attempts to encapsulate is the masses of networks of automated machines that didn’t traditionally have connectivity, working to manage the environment around them, supposedly for the benefit of everyone.
Typical examples are fridges that notify users when something’s not right with the groceries inside, smart energy systems that manage heating to maximise efficiency and a toothbrush that reports oral hygiene habits to dentists.
It’s a brave new world, one rife with possibility for businesses
hoping to make money from things that weren’t profitable before they
were able to interact with the internet. The problem with giving objects
IP addresses, however, is that they become exploitable. And in the
world of embedded devices, if hackers hit them, they might be able to
cause serious damage.
“The Internet is now woven into the fabric of our lives, literally in some cases, as connectivity is embedded into everyday objects,” says David Emm, senior security researcher at Kaspersky Lab. “The result is that we can be touched in more ways than ever by those who wish to subvert technology. The risks include theft of data by an attacker or manipulation of that data so that incorrect information is sent.”
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The Register
No doubt many of The Reg’s readers are tired of the term “the Internet of Things”. It is both a nebulous term and a vague idea. What it attempts to encapsulate is the masses of networks of automated machines that didn’t traditionally have connectivity, working to manage the environment around them, supposedly for the benefit of everyone.
Typical examples are fridges that notify users when something’s not right with the groceries inside, smart energy systems that manage heating to maximise efficiency and a toothbrush that reports oral hygiene habits to dentists.
“The Internet is now woven into the fabric of our lives, literally in some cases, as connectivity is embedded into everyday objects,” says David Emm, senior security researcher at Kaspersky Lab. “The result is that we can be touched in more ways than ever by those who wish to subvert technology. The risks include theft of data by an attacker or manipulation of that data so that incorrect information is sent.”
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Wednesday, 11 June 2014
The Pathology of Transhumanist Singularity
Activist Post
Julian Rose
Bear with me, for this may not be an easy read - but we need to crack the code of this much-discussed vainglorious chimera.
Which is not to say it doesn't exist - it does. Yet it exists as a byproduct of minds that operate in a sub human vacuum; that have severed their connection with with the normal diversity of emotions - and more particularly - with spirit and soul. Once this type of divorce is sanctioned there can only be deleterious consequences.
The current Transhumanist ethos is deeply atheistic and, as such, has no need to replace God, since it doesn't believe there is such an entity in the first place. But, ironically, it seemingly does have the need to create an all-powerful god of its own design.
Such a concept, pursued through to its conclusion, can, according to its proponents, provide some sort of final solution to the human dilemma. So we get the Transhumanist notion that the realisation of a computer that can outmaneuver the human brain will somehow produce a liberated society.
Nothing, in reality could be further from the truth. By handing over responsibility for the management of our lives to machines, we usurp our own ability to shape, alter, direct and ultimately rejoice in the art of living. Instead, we individually elect to become slaves to our own inventions.
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Julian Rose
Bear with me, for this may not be an easy read - but we need to crack the code of this much-discussed vainglorious chimera.
Which is not to say it doesn't exist - it does. Yet it exists as a byproduct of minds that operate in a sub human vacuum; that have severed their connection with with the normal diversity of emotions - and more particularly - with spirit and soul. Once this type of divorce is sanctioned there can only be deleterious consequences.
The current Transhumanist ethos is deeply atheistic and, as such, has no need to replace God, since it doesn't believe there is such an entity in the first place. But, ironically, it seemingly does have the need to create an all-powerful god of its own design.
Such a concept, pursued through to its conclusion, can, according to its proponents, provide some sort of final solution to the human dilemma. So we get the Transhumanist notion that the realisation of a computer that can outmaneuver the human brain will somehow produce a liberated society.
Nothing, in reality could be further from the truth. By handing over responsibility for the management of our lives to machines, we usurp our own ability to shape, alter, direct and ultimately rejoice in the art of living. Instead, we individually elect to become slaves to our own inventions.
Read more
Friday, 6 June 2014
Why Apple Wants Everything You Own Connected to the Internet
Susan Posel
Karl Steinbuch, computer scientist from 1966 predicted : “In a few decades’ time, computers will be interwoven into almost every industrial product.”
In the near future, all devices will be connected to the internet through software that allows exchanges of data. This is called the Internet of Things (IoT).
Fifteen years ago, Kevin Ashton, former head of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Auto-ID Center, coined the phrase the “Internet of Things” while working on designs for RFID infrastructures that would facilitate standard protocol for connections and communications from computer to computer – the World Wide Web.
Although this ideal is still a ways off, the foundation for it is being laid right now.
Apple made an announcement at the 2014 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) that their corporation is developing Homekit (HK), standardized security communications that various tech manufacturers can all use to ensure that their products allow devices, appliances, cars and other interconnected electronics can “speak” to each other.
Read more
Karl Steinbuch, computer scientist from 1966 predicted : “In a few decades’ time, computers will be interwoven into almost every industrial product.”
In the near future, all devices will be connected to the internet through software that allows exchanges of data. This is called the Internet of Things (IoT).
Fifteen years ago, Kevin Ashton, former head of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Auto-ID Center, coined the phrase the “Internet of Things” while working on designs for RFID infrastructures that would facilitate standard protocol for connections and communications from computer to computer – the World Wide Web.
Although this ideal is still a ways off, the foundation for it is being laid right now.
Apple made an announcement at the 2014 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) that their corporation is developing Homekit (HK), standardized security communications that various tech manufacturers can all use to ensure that their products allow devices, appliances, cars and other interconnected electronics can “speak” to each other.
Read more
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