"i'm so frustrated by the degree to which a lot of this, this, like, transportation technology is focused around the automobile," he says. "I think that when you add more of these digital technologies, more of this internet connectedness, into so many of the products that we rely on every day ... i think at the same time, you not only build in security vulnerabilities, but also increase the risk." He adds: "Washing machines used to last for 30, forty years. Refrigerators, freezers, um, they do not".
Paris Marx is joined by Chris Gilliard to discuss the ethics of tech media recommending surveillance devices, aspects of “smart” technologies you might not have considered, and why we should think twice about surrounding ourselves with cameras and microphones.
Chris Gilliard is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center. Follow Chris on Twitter at @hypervisible.
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