Comments on: An unfortunate accident. http://thehappymoron.com/blog/2009/03/13/an-unfortunate-accident/ When being stupid is smart Tue, 15 May 2012 18:30:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: happy_moron http://thehappymoron.com/blog/2009/03/13/an-unfortunate-accident/comment-page-1/#comment-745 happy_moron Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:43:52 +0000 http://thehappymoron.com/blog/2009/03/13/an-unfortunate-accident/#comment-745 Woah, woah! Hold up, sparky! You're stealing my next post in the series. You're absolutely correct. Society will readjust itself, and as systems prove themselves unreliable or dangerous, we will reduce the trust we have in them. We'll start to filter the things we make available, and we'll start to regard stuff we see online with a healthy skepticism. The thing that bothers me are is that we haven't adjusted ourselves yet, and I think we're now in a transition period with significant potential for abuse (present and future). Woah, woah! Hold up, sparky! You’re stealing my next post in the series.

You’re absolutely correct. Society will readjust itself, and as systems prove themselves unreliable or dangerous, we will reduce the trust we have in them. We’ll start to filter the things we make available, and we’ll start to regard stuff we see online with a healthy skepticism.

The thing that bothers me are is that we haven’t adjusted ourselves yet, and I think we’re now in a transition period with significant potential for abuse (present and future).

]]> By: Janet http://thehappymoron.com/blog/2009/03/13/an-unfortunate-accident/comment-page-1/#comment-744 Janet Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:17:45 +0000 http://thehappymoron.com/blog/2009/03/13/an-unfortunate-accident/#comment-744 He's shocked but I bet you a lot of people who read the article are not. One of the side effects of this sort of thing is probably that the value of personal information becomes less and less. In the past a picture of you was horribly horribly personal. Now it might randomly show up somewhere else due to a bug. Explaining to others it was a random bug is an increasingly acceptable excuse in a digital age. As the shock value wears off and this sort of thing becomes more common I think it may well be taken less seriously by society. He’s shocked but I bet you a lot of people who read the article are not. One of the side effects of this sort of thing is probably that the value of personal information becomes less and less. In the past a picture of you was horribly horribly personal. Now it might randomly show up somewhere else due to a bug. Explaining to others it was a random bug is an increasingly acceptable excuse in a digital age.

As the shock value wears off and this sort of thing becomes more common I think it may well be taken less seriously by society.

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