Posted on 01/08/2013 4:13:54 PM PST by BBell
Big Brother lives
I saw a report that Verizons new cable box will be able to count how many people are watching TV and LISTEN TO CONVERSATIONS FOR KEYWORDS
It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself – anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offense.
Nothing would surprise me in that regard. I ditched TV over 10 years ago and do not miss it. After 500 channels of boredom with Dish, and for more than I want to pay for that boredom, I quit and use my TV as a monitor.
But it never ceases to amaze me that every advance that brings entry by either govt or business into the home in the name of continence, more and more people lap it up while saying they worry about that very thing. And claim tinfoil for anyone pointing out that such convinences WILL go beyond their stated purposes.
People thought the ‘crash box’ stuff in cars was great with lower ins rated. Now people are learning that the ins co.s use the data to deny claims. And the GPS in a modern car can be used to track speeding.
But noooooo that doesn’t and would NEVER happen. Just crazy tinfoiler stuff...
Verily, there is nothing new under the sun...
that funny little commie Charlie Chaplin foresaw TV’s that Watch You... way back in 1930:
(at the five minute mark ....)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHdmaFJ6W6M
I stopped the TV on Showtime FAMILY channel and was greeted with a movie where a high school girl gets birth control and consent from her permissive parents.
right
I am often perplexed by what Hollyweird considers “family” programming
In Soviet Russia, they had projection television.
In Soviet Amerika, networks have anchors who project.
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