Facial Recognition Experiment

How much of cyber punk sci-fi dystopian fiction will be used as a instruction manual? All of it, it seems. Back when Meta collaborated with Rayban last year to put Facebook cameras in glasses, it gave me the ick. Now that has turned into a full-blown allergic reaction after reading this terrifying piece in the New York Times.

If one were trying to avoid these sorts of bizarre civil experiments, one could simply opt-out of attending live events where this technology is being used, or just stop shopping at supermarkets where it is commonplace (turns out that it is all of them). But with this tech being embedded into people’s faces and all of the neophiliacs chomping to get their paws on them to take Facebook quite literally, it is no longer avoidable.

sigh I don’t know what to do, this is not the future we were promised.