{"id":27539,"date":"2010-08-07T08:18:35","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T08:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/information-explosion-transparent-society-gene-expression\/"},"modified":"2010-08-07T08:18:35","modified_gmt":"2010-08-07T08:18:35","slug":"information-explosion-transparent-society-gene-expression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/information-explosion-transparent-society-gene-expression.php","title":{"rendered":"Information explosion &amp; transparent society | Gene Expression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thinq.co.uk\/2010\/8\/5\/no-anonymity-future-web-says-google-ceo\/\">No anonymity on future web says Google CEO<\/a>:<\/p><blockquote><p>&ldquo;There was five exabytes [five billion gigabytes] of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;But that much information is now created every two days, and the pace is increasing&hellip; People aren&rsquo;t ready for the technology revolution that&rsquo;s going to happen to them.<\/p><p>&hellip;<\/p><p>The bulk of that information, Schmidt explained, comes in the form of user-generated data. Every digital interaction throws up information, he said. And that information can be used to minutely analyse and predict human behaviour.<\/p><p>&hellip;<\/p><p>Schmidt told delegates at the conference that the availability of information increased convenience, and enabled society to more effectively combat anti-social and criminal behaviour &ndash; but his talk raised some unsettling issues.<\/p><p>He said that addressing issues such as identity theft, for instance, required<b> &ldquo;true transparency and no anonymity&rdquo;.<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b40fe_9RY8m698V6w\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No anonymity on future web says Google CEO:&ldquo;There was five exabytes [five billion gigabytes] of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;But that much information is now created every two days, and the pace is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/information-explosion-transparent-society-gene-expression.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}