A system whereby I could have live video footage taken from about my eye-level perspective, as well as audio recordings, which broadcast those signals out via Ham, CB or whatever radio frequencies were available, and sent them simultaneously to the internet, but also could spontaneously interrupt other signals, so that suddenly people whose houses I walk by in the neighborhood watching TV would suddenly see the world (through their TV) through my eyes, and hear it through my ears. But only while I was near enough to them for them to get the signal, or to pick up something from a repeater.
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I wonder what the cheapest way to pull this off would be, because I’ve been contemplating the same…Ethan Zuckerman proposed them as “Witness cameras” for documenting war crimes…I think we should have been implementing this @ protests for the past 3-5 years or so.
It would almost be like a notary public or being some kind of memory priest or something… like people could give you a gift to come to their event and “remember” it for them in your master datastream…
We Can Remember It for You Wholesale?
Never actually read it. Let’s not forget the Mercer Box either
“We Can Remember It for You Wholesale?” was also the basis for Total Recall, so it brings in the replacement of real memories with false ones (or at least ones you never experienced, depending on how you define experience!)
The whole thing’s a rabbit hole, but a fun one to explore!
To whit, a question for you: Assuming something like this did exist, would we benefit as much from being able to partake of someone else’s broadcasted experience in this way, as we would were we to truly experience it our self? It’s something I’m kind of exploring now myself, and finding good evidence for both a yes and a no answer.
It’s just different, not better or worse. A neutral novelty, technology adapts to all possible uses. All experience is relative, since experience seems to require a particular viewpoint and ordering or sequencing of details perceived within some kind of sensorium. Whether you experience something in real life or on tv, you’re still always experiencing the same thing at the very root of it all: yourself experiencing yourself.
What about paparazzi?
I’ve thought before about making some kind of DARPA-esque cloud of robo-insects which would constantly orbit the periphery of VIPs and obscure and obfuscate interference or access from illegal or unlicensed mediographers…
That’s true, but I think that saying it’s not better or worse is looking at the subjective experience in an objective way. I agree, any experience is a valid experience, but since we experience experience from within a particular viewpoint, shouldn’t a certain level of voluntary continuity be maintained from within that viewpoint? To do otherwise would be to risk a complete dissolution of the subjective, it seems to me.
Of course, the dissolution of the subjective viewpoint is considered a good thing by many spiritual traditions, but generally not if you haven’t prepared yourself for it…
As a person experiencing myself through myself, perhaps I am better off using the sensory technology I was born with? I’m not saying that the broadcast-of-experience that you’re exploring is an invalid experience, just that it might be less valuable than engaging in our own experience of experience.
And actually, paparazzi are a good example of technology used to translate someone else’s experience for others consumption. Tabloid papers and shows are designed to make their consumers feel as if they’re a part of those famous people’s lives. But it’s not real, and it’s not the same thing as being those stars at all.
Perhaps it’s just that our technology hasn’t developed far enough yet, but I’ve never known anybody to have a better life because they regularly read those magazines…
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_games#Theory
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