Comments on: 25 years from now… http://www.seanbohan.com/2008/09/10/25-years-from-now/ Entrepreneur, Founder, Renaissance Caveman, Heretic, Idea Guy, Crafter of Digital Stuff Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:25:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Sean http://www.seanbohan.com/2008/09/10/25-years-from-now/comment-page-1/#comment-85420 Sean Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:05:33 +0000 http://www.seanbohan.com/?p=427#comment-85420 awesome - red cup comment made me LOL algo will definitely flip - and thats where things get interesting - will we get more conscious of how we are portrayed by ourselves and our graph (I doubt it), or will we become more permissive as a society over what someone's past include. Where is the middle when the extremes are in the persistent cache? 2 big social drivers are reputation and peer pressure. What happens when the "I tried it but I didnt inhale" is replaced by "I did a lot of things in the 2010s I wasnt proud of... everyone else did too". If there is no stigma (for anything) what do we have to complain about? awesome – red cup comment made me LOL

algo will definitely flip – and thats where things get interesting – will we get more conscious of how we are portrayed by ourselves and our graph (I doubt it), or will we become more permissive as a society over what someone’s past include. Where is the middle when the extremes are in the persistent cache?

2 big social drivers are reputation and peer pressure. What happens when the “I tried it but I didnt inhale” is replaced by “I did a lot of things in the 2010s I wasnt proud of… everyone else did too”. If there is no stigma (for anything) what do we have to complain about?

]]> By: Laura "Pistachio" Fitton http://www.seanbohan.com/2008/09/10/25-years-from-now/comment-page-1/#comment-85351 Laura "Pistachio" Fitton Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:05:40 +0000 http://www.seanbohan.com/?p=427#comment-85351 Excellent post and thought-provoking questions. On the flip side, I believe eventually a "critical mass" momentum in digital life trails will shift our hypocrisy in dealing with "skeletons in closets." The scrutiny of candidates is farcical given the degree of bizarre behavior we often learn was behind dogmatically restrictive facades (think virulently homophobic politicians who are themselves gay, evangelicals who turn out to be cheating on their spouses). Another point I've heard made, is that the judgment algorithm will eventually flip, such that people with pristine lifetrails will become suspect. Aw come on, they never drank from a red cup in college? You expect me to believe that? Well what else are they hiding? Normative standards will change. There's also much to be said for simply not going to work for people who are so hypocritical as to disavow that people are human and flawed. But yeah, lots to think about. Excellent post and thought-provoking questions. On the flip side, I believe eventually a “critical mass” momentum in digital life trails will shift our hypocrisy in dealing with “skeletons in closets.” The scrutiny of candidates is farcical given the degree of bizarre behavior we often learn was behind dogmatically restrictive facades (think virulently homophobic politicians who are themselves gay, evangelicals who turn out to be cheating on their spouses).

Another point I’ve heard made, is that the judgment algorithm will eventually flip, such that people with pristine lifetrails will become suspect. Aw come on, they never drank from a red cup in college? You expect me to believe that? Well what else are they hiding?

Normative standards will change. There’s also much to be said for simply not going to work for people who are so hypocritical as to disavow that people are human and flawed.

But yeah, lots to think about.

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