Edit: and that's what I find most troubling: that someone can know much more about me than myself. Things that you can only realize from looking at the data over time, things that are invisible when experienced on real time.
Edit: and that's what I find most troubling: that someone can know much more about me than myself. Things that you can only realize from looking at the data over time, things that are invisible when experienced on real time.
I imagine the synthesis of these forces in the future is technologies that aggregate, but that the indivudal can buy into. Do you want help deciding what to wear based on the weather or time of day, beyond what your assistant can do for you? Then there's a collective data channel you can opt-in to joining, and you'll trade some of your personal private information for access to a digital "collective unconscious" of aggregate data. I liken it to the 23andme approach of collecting genetic profiles.