<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
http-equiv="Content-Type">
</head>
<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2013-06-12 23:48, spike wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote cite="mid:007401ce67bf$042e7110$0c8b5330$@rainier66.com"
type="cite">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=ISO-8859-1">
<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 14 (filtered
medium)">
<style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:purple;
text-decoration:underline;}
span.EmailStyle17
{mso-style-type:personal-compose;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:windowtext;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";}
@page WordSection1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
--></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]-->
<div class="WordSection1">
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>I haven’t proven it yet so it
is merely a suspicion based on it being a convenient
explanation for a collection of baffling observations. There
is much detective work to do. But what a sitch: these two
sleepwalkers get caught nearly a century and a half later.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
<br>
Great story! And a good example of how technology is making the past
transparent in ways it couldn't foresee. We are right now fairly
transparent to the future: we are leaving gigantic data shadows that
imply much more than we think. A few facebook likes, the rhythm of
keyboard writing, patterns of IP-addresses - they all reveal our
identities and activities much more than we normally think. And in
the future every kid will have tools that make Prism look pretty
trivial.<br>
<br>
If you want to keep secrets from the future you really have to work
on it. <br>
<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:007401ce67bf$042e7110$0c8b5330$@rainier66.com"
type="cite">
<div class="WordSection1">
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>The human genome project was
supposed to help us solve humanities most vexing medical
problems. Instead it is helping us figure out long after the
fact who was jumping whom and when. It’s the scientific
version of using all that internet bandwidth to exchange
pornography.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
<br>
We mammals know our priorities.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Dr Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Oxford University
</pre>
</body>
</html>