Hilarious idea by Svenson:

What if restaurants decided to increase their value to customers by tracking “Food Wakes?” the devices to do this would be placed in their toilets, and analyze their customers “output” to determine what kind of food they prefered eating and what other restaurants they visited. As the system became more widespread, there could be “tracking spices”; non-toxic chemical signatures associated with unique dishes at unique restaurants. There could be an information deal where in sharing their spice keys, they can read the spice keys of other restaurants to extract super detailed data from their customers poo. And of course, the fecal analysis could be insalled discretely, so the customers didn’t have to know.

Not sure if I ever wrote about this, but I had a dream maybe 6-8 months ago about a near-futuristic mall scenario. In the dream, I went to take a piss at a urinal in the mall, which apparently administered a random drug test on me, which it correlated to biometric data collected by the sensor on the toilet. It thereby automatically flagged my identity as having failed the drug test, and when I went to use a friend’s cell phone (not even my phone), the phone knew I had failed the test and forbade me from using it.

I have an eerie suspicion that this dream is at least prophetic in principle, if not in specifics. As technological sophistication and synchronization rapidly increases, we are going to need to invent new legal protections for ourselves - because I can just about guarantee all these data collection and identity management companies are not going to do it for us.