Google Future and Fingerprints
Prever o que vai aparecer na internet amanh ou controlar usurios pelas impresses eletrnicas digitais podem no parecer fenmenos interligados, mas so. Se pensarmos que prever o futuro e monitorar dados digitais com bancos gigantesco de informaes biomtricas (impresso digital, DNA, retina….) so formas de antecipao, talvez possamos ver links entre os dois fenmenos. Ambos pretendem saber o que vai acontecer “amanh”, seja para a suposta “segurana”, seja pela curiosidade de padres de informaes. Vemos aqui como a performance digital da antecipao no apenas espera o que vir, mas o produz. No se trata de esperar o tempo que passa mas de produz-lo antes que algo “imprevisvel” acontea. Nada ser como antes, mas podemos prever os comportamentos e assim, produzir a diferena
Gday do Google na Austrlia e scanning de impresses digitais na alemanha esto a para mostrar essa conexo:
“Google spiders crawl publicly available web information and our index of historic, cached web content. Using a mashup of numerous factors such as recurrence plots, fuzzy measure analysis, online betting odds and the weather forecast from the iGoogle weather gadget, we can create a sophisticated model of what the internet will look like 24 hours from now. We can use this technique to predict almost anything on the web tomorrow’s share price movements, sports results or news events. Plus, using language regression analysis, Google can even predict the actual wording of blogs and newspaper columns, 24 hours before theyre written! To rank these future pages in order of relevance, gDay uses a statistical extrapolation of a pages future PageRank, called SageRank. The technology behind Gday is called Mate, which stands for Machine Automated Temporal Extrapolation. (via Techcrunch)
“There was a long dicussion on finger print scans for passports in germany. Eventually the government introduced them last Autum. This is the official german passport fingerprint scanner at Berlin Mitte “Brgeramt” administration I saw yesterday. … No, not yet. My old passport is still valid till 2009. But USA has already a scan of my fingers … strange.” (Via blog de Aram Bartholl)