Phillip Agre

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Read a post in Washington Post. 

It's about what Phillip Agre foresaw in 1994. His prediction about the (information)-technology spying over the individual at every place and at all times has just come true.

When I knew about bio-metric information and how Aadhar (UIDAI) collects the same, I grew suspicious about the same.

When I saw how mobiles tell us to lock the device by face-cognition and finger-mark, I again felt, this is a way of keeping a tab on everyone.

Helping through 'search', 'maps', 'location', they can always have a watch on you and all your activities. 

It is how there is nothing like privacy or secrecy and each and every individual is vulnerable. 

I was always cautious of this possibility. 

Even when they suggest voice recognition, speech recognition, fingerprint recognition, facial recognition, I at once suspect how a technogy-giant like the Google, facebook and other such IT ventures could stealthily save the details of each and everyone individual they pretend to serve.

That is how AI works and may help too them.

That is a 'key' to Zuckerberg's Metaverse, too. 

Just a few days ago I was talking to a friend about what is that Art of Cognition and what is the Science of the same.

It doesn't need an Einstein's wisdom to see that the machine-learning is also about the same. 

Then we discovered how recognition could be viewed in terms of integrated information or in terms of the analytical approach.

Still the AI and the machine learning could not help much. Because the intelligence inherent in man supersedes them both. 

Of course, the governments and the governance may try to exploit people, ultimately the people would without fail, recognize all this trap. They would just stop using these things like internet,  mobiles and other such machines that collect through recognition, their personal data. No monetary agencies could survive, for ultimately 'hackers' of all kinds would disrupt the whole monetary system.

One thing is sure if any, -an indication.

Phillip Agre himself disappeared from the public view and is still unavailable to comment upon this whole matter.

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