Siren servers
Siren Servers gather data from the network, often without having to pay for it. The data is analyzed using the most powerful available computers, run by the very best available technical people. The results of the analysis are kept secret, but are used to manipulate the rest of the world to advantage.
The most successful Siren Servers also benefit from punishing network effects. These are centered on a fear, risk, or cost that makes “captured” populations think twice if they want to stop engaging with a Siren Server.
Individual Siren Servers can die and yet the Siren Server pattern perseveres, and it is that pattern that is the real problem. The systematic decoupling of risk from reward in the rising information economy is the problem, not any particular server.
cognitive styles
There are as unlimited variety of cognitive style as there are number of humans
VR can become helpful in replaying an experience that is suitable for knowledge acquisition of your cognitive style
There should be a tech design that is right for someone. Technology prowess should support more variety
Creepiness
a scale of personal control over the three aspects of his life
- privacy
- identity
- security