The Extraordinaries Haiti Earthquake Support Center. A followup post on the Extraordinaries' efforts to use ubiquitous human computing to help find missing people after the Haiti earthquake -- a positive vision inspired by JZ's nightmare scenario of crowdsourced secret police ...
In talks about ubicomp, JZ gives an example of a worst-case scenario involving ubicomp platforms. He imagines that the Iranian government could use Amazon Mechanical Turk to identify dissidents, simply by posting pictures of protestors and ID-card pictures of ...