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To: mozek who wrote (4076)	11/18/1997 8:15:00 AM
From: Columbo	Read Replies (1) of 74651

MS as a company is the Cali Cartel. MS internal people are truly scary. jya.com Consider spoken conversation. Although we may quote each other when we say something memorable, that is the exception rather than the rule. People tend to treat speech as an ephemeral medium--if we want to count on being able to revisit it in the future we ~o to special effort to take notes or record it. ~n the near future we will have the capability to record and index it all.... The next generation of digital VCRs coming out in 1994 will hold 100 gigabytes per tape, which means that a single piece of media with a cost of about S10 should be able to hold all of the conversations an individual has for their entire lifetime. More capacious memories and newer digital-compression advances would also make the storage of video possible: The Rodney King case showed the power of video tape in recording a situation. How long will it be before every police car, or individual policeman, is equipped with a digital video camera, with non-forgeable time and location stamps? Commercial airliners have long had a "black box" or flight recorder, but why not extend this for buses, cars--even for individual people? ... A couple more years of price/performance improvement and we could carry a device like that with us. The digital storage capacity would be enough to record everything we say and do.... Such a device could carry your entire life on it--the ultimate diary and autobiography. At this stage you may wonder why do this? Indeed, the notion of never being outside the range of digital recorders operated by Big Brother can sound pretty sinister. It would be very easy to regard this as the ultimate threat to privacy and personal freedom. Columbo is here to save the world, Buuudddy. Hitler and the Boys must be stopped. MH #0

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