My prediction with all this is that we'll ultimately start having measurement and analytics for literally every facet of life, further eroding personal freedoms. Technology is getting to the point where anything can become a device for measurement with the internet of things. Imagine a world where every door, vehicle, weapon and even human is constantly measured with intricate algorithms calculating trends, storing every single piece of data being generated, and then sending responses to those same devices (i.e. lock the door, kill the engine, disarm the weapon, incapacitate the human). I don't think this is far out of the realm of possibility.
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