Back to episode — Episode 2949 CWSA 09/05/25
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to go out in the street and say, we're just wondering if you were in charge of these big decisions at the CDC, etc., do you think that science should be used to make the decisions? How many people in the United States would say, "Oh, no, don't use the science." None. None. Well, 100% of all living humans believe that if you have science that can be depended on, you should use it for these decision…
← Previous segment →drones. So I mean, it's a smaller story, but do you believe that the Biden administration would have done that? You know, just drop that regulation because it's outdated and do it fairly rapidly. So there's something about the speed that the Trump administration is doing stuff, just ordinary stuff like that. It just looks like a whole different speed for a government to do stuff.
According to Futurism, there's an AI startup that wants to put a camera basically everywhere in public. What I didn't understand. And I thought it'd be a really good idea if it were possible. And by good idea, I mean you won't like it ethically or morally or lifestyle-wise. You won't like anything about it. But as a business model, it would be good for somebody. And that would be to if you could get access to everybody's security cameras, then when there was a problem, instead of having to go to every person, all right, can you show us your security from the front of your store? If there was some way that like all of those would be on a network for everybody's benefit because they would be cameras facing public places. So there is a company that's trying to have cameras everywhere that they can see you basically watch a bad guy from beginning to end wherever they go and I don't know if they're using existing cameras or it has to be one of their cameras. So that wasn't really in the story weirdly, but the general idea that there will be cameras everywhere because of crime. I predicted in the mid-90s and in my book The Dilbert Future that there would be cameras everywhere. And I'm going to double down on one part of the prediction. It hasn't happened, but I think it will. I believe there will be cameras in almost every private space, let's say indoor space except for maybe bathrooms, maybe bedrooms, but you know, like living rooms and kitchens and stuff. I believe that every house will end up having a camera. Maybe it'll be built into light bulbs or something. But it will be deeply encrypted so that even the government can't get in it. And the one and only way anybody could penetrate it is if there's a court order and then some kind of password is revealed or whatever. So that way the homeowner would never give up their privacy unless let's say there was a house invasion and they wanted to give up their privacy to show the criminals and then they get a court order and then it gets opened up. So my prediction is that there will, somebody's going to find a way. And I'm not saying this is good. I'm not saying you should like it. You're all going to dislike the risk to your privacy. I get it. You don't have to explain it. I'm just predicting it. I'm not telling you it's a good idea or that you should like it. I'm just saying I feel like there's going to be 100% recording cameras in all interior spaces and we'll just figure out some way to keep it private until it needs to be not private and you're not going to like it.
Well, there's yet another story. How many of these have you heard of scientists trying to turn some living organic thing into a processor? And the story is
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always the same that organic things could possibly process things faster than digital things. And this might be the future, blah blah blah. So here's another one that they're trying to turn bacteria into digital processors. And every time I see this kind of story, I say to myself, I feel like this will never work. As soon as you put in organic parts, they become unpredictable and they die. They do…
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