If you could somehow create a log of accurate biometric and personal data, something way beyond the life logging apps of today, which would comprise all your choices and their consequences for you personally would you choose to do so? Would you choose to sell it? Share it? Both? Would it matter to you who benefited from your information and how they benefited?
It is my consideration that a lot of personal data is shared in all sorts of ways which is not gainful to the persons sharing it or generating it and that others profit by this often without the "author" being aware of it, I am not talking exclusively in the sense of monetary or financial profit really but there is obviously an important respect in which this is definitely the case. It is certainly the case in biometric information used in medical research into immunity, microbial research, other sorts of medical research and development, pharmaceuticals etc.
In many ways I see this as potentially significant in terms of paradigm shifts in thinking about what constitutes productivity and economic activity. The older ideas as to what constitutes occupation, creating value, even the idea of makers, would be incorrect in this scenario. Even if you were what would have been labelled in the past (in some quarters still so in the present) as a "wasterel" or "perisher" or "the surplus population" and engaged in behaviours, transactions or lifestyles considered personally and socially deleterious or harmful, ie the "indolent", "idlers", "rioters" it is all data.
Even if people are living lives which a "nasty, brutish and short" by their own choosing and it constitutes little more than "a cautionary tale to others", it definitely would do and an have value and worth as a consequence. What do you think?
It is my consideration that a lot of personal data is shared in all sorts of ways which is not gainful to the persons sharing it or generating it and that others profit by this often without the "author" being aware of it, I am not talking exclusively in the sense of monetary or financial profit really but there is obviously an important respect in which this is definitely the case. It is certainly the case in biometric information used in medical research into immunity, microbial research, other sorts of medical research and development, pharmaceuticals etc.
In many ways I see this as potentially significant in terms of paradigm shifts in thinking about what constitutes productivity and economic activity. The older ideas as to what constitutes occupation, creating value, even the idea of makers, would be incorrect in this scenario. Even if you were what would have been labelled in the past (in some quarters still so in the present) as a "wasterel" or "perisher" or "the surplus population" and engaged in behaviours, transactions or lifestyles considered personally and socially deleterious or harmful, ie the "indolent", "idlers", "rioters" it is all data.
Even if people are living lives which a "nasty, brutish and short" by their own choosing and it constitutes little more than "a cautionary tale to others", it definitely would do and an have value and worth as a consequence. What do you think?
