Tl;dr recommendation systems, digital records, all combine to highlight inconsistencies between our past behaviour and current behaviour, this forcing us to never change for fear of being labelled a Hypocrite.
This is extrapolating out of technical realm and not passing through culture before making a conclusion. Just as today's 30 year old will be far more forgiving of an employee with photos online of their drunken 20's than pre-Facebook 30 year olds, we will find our cultural norms changing as more and more of us find privacy has vanished.
The issue is not can the technology be used in this way, but will those using it that way be labelled "normal", "annoying moralists" or "unclean and untouchable".
Technology always leads us to new crises - but we should manage them with an eye on the value that can be wrought. Technology that monitors my heartbeat and liver function I like. Technology that monitors my political views I want to be wrapped in social and legal constraints.
I preferred the novels where a woman able to perceive alternative futures simply chose the one where if she scratched her left ear and turned round twice, her enemy had a heart attack a week later on a different planet. She was literally the most powerful being alive.
This is extrapolating out of technical realm and not passing through culture before making a conclusion. Just as today's 30 year old will be far more forgiving of an employee with photos online of their drunken 20's than pre-Facebook 30 year olds, we will find our cultural norms changing as more and more of us find privacy has vanished.
The issue is not can the technology be used in this way, but will those using it that way be labelled "normal", "annoying moralists" or "unclean and untouchable".
Technology always leads us to new crises - but we should manage them with an eye on the value that can be wrought. Technology that monitors my heartbeat and liver function I like. Technology that monitors my political views I want to be wrapped in social and legal constraints.