[NetBehaviour] Facecoin

[Rob Myers]

On 21/01/14 01:45 PM, James Morris wrote:
> 
> I was thinking more machine based Anthropological criminology and/or
> physiognomy' basically to combine a 'backward' pseudo science  with
> machine pareidolia - might be fun seeing a lamp post classed as a bank
> robber etc.

Ah yes sorry that makes more sense (and is fun).

Although with The Internet of Things that lamp post *could* be a criminal:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25780908

(maybe not just yet though:

http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/01/is-your-refrigerator-really-part-of-a-massive-spam-sending-botnet/
)

The existing free software algorithms for identifying gender and affect
can be applied to lamp posts in a feminist way or used to create a kind
of machine Pathetic Fallacy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathetic_fallacy

Combine it with Google glass and Instagram and ... no this is getting a
bit TED, sorry.

- Rob.