The marketing opportunity for me would be to offer a service protecting your identity.

Remember the Tom Cruise film Minority Report? That was where the police were able to arrest you before the crime was committed, just based on your thoughts.

Now, anyone who could develop a service to counteract that would make a bit of money. Just before they were destroyed by the thought police.

Cheers,

Martin.

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From a marketing aspect this sounds creepy! From a personal side – also freaky! LOL

I agree, this is a double edged sword for sure.

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Some of these disruptions will be healthy, a weeding out of the bad. Some will get thrown under the bus for no reason because they failed to pay attention to the warning signs.

Also, it will create tremendous opportunity to do good and bad. As a marketer, we all love opportunity… lets hope we’re working with the good guys.

We all have a stake in this. Keep a close eye on how the government reacts and speak up.

I am a newbie but I think it is important to maintain our independence and continue to work around issues that are not right.

Maybe we can all watch out for each other…guide new kids like me…and make a better social world.

This way of leveraging the playing field makes “The CloWd” (to me) a lot less scary and conceivably a lot more manageable – because as the network gets more intelligent… intelligence networks will proliferate. Just as easily as the “po-po” will be able to track MY movements; I’ll be able to track theirs (while they track me tracking them tracking me…)…

You track, I track, we all track with the WayBack (machine). LOL… gotta love it!

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It is up to the general public, particularly those in focus, that will make the determination of what direction it takes…because it is coming.

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“It’s up to us to make it worthwhile, not dangerous.”

Agreed. And I’m sure far more people will be involved in the worthwhile part of it. Its just when we’re done opening those doors, the people who’d make such things dangerous like to come in and make themselves at home with less desirable outcomes in mind.

I’m way too curious to be against it. Like you said, its coming no matter what. I, for one, will be looking for the positive uses while I start my Hollywood face alteration kit business for people who want to go outside and not be sucked into the wrong part of the Clowd.

But seriously, Seth brings up a good point. While the social web is great…it does begin to rob privacy…allow for unethical and immoral behavior..and can have negative effects that far outreach the obvious.

Wow, it almost sounds like Communism. Of course the best way to eliminate immoral and unethical behavior (not to mention disturbing and illegal behavior) is to take away privacy…sooo….

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I think this is going to cause enormous disruption and dislocation. I’m not lobbying for it, just predicting it.

It’s up to us to make it worthwhile, not dangerous.