Last week at MeshForum, Jamais Cascio presented a fascinating story of how ubiquitous cell phone cameras and other tech advances would make privacy obsolete. Somebody will always be watching or listening, and probably storing our every move in some sort of digital and searchable archive, via “always on” cellular and other devices.
Later, it occured to me that this outer development of awareness and memory must parallel similar awareness skills being developed internally in our bodies and beings. Then support for the science of this comes via email today: scientists investigating “mirror neurons” that we use when we move and do things, but also use when we simply watch others do the same things. In short, science may be suggesting that we learn and empathize by reading minds.