Katina Michael's (University of Wollongong, Australia) Keynote presentation from the FoCAS Summer School 2014, Crete, Greece

1. The Consequences of Living and
Breathing with Hyperconnectedness
Associate Professor Katina Michael
Associate Dean – International
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences
University of Wollongong, Australia
katina@uow.edu.au
http://ro.uow.edu.au/kmichael
FoCAS Summer Camp – Crete, Greece – 24 June 2014

4. Utopia
• Automatic ID
– Who
• Location Tracking
– Where
• Condition Monitoring
– What
• Points of View
– How
• Evidence-on-demand
• Validation
• Risk minimisation
• Control Applications
– Security-related
• Care Applications
– Wander-alerts
• Convenience Applications
– Key-less access
• Efficiencies
• Effectiveness
• Resource optimisation

7. Dystopia

9. Different Points of View (POV)
• Vector View
• Satellite View
• Street View
• Building View
• Light-post/tree View
• What about Person View?
– Sousveillance

10. What’s this?
Anyone like to guess?

11. First Picture from Explorer VI Satellite
• This is the first crude picture
obtained from Explorer VI
Earth satellite launched August
7, 1959. It shows a sun-lighted
area of the Central Pacific
ocean and its cloud cover. The
picture was made when the
satellite was about 17,000
miles above the surface of the
earth on August 14, 1959. At
the time, the satellite was
crossing Mexico. The signals
were received at the South
Point, Hawaii, tracking station.
Source: NASA http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2002-000200.html

12. To Google Earth

13. …

14. Yes…

15. StreetView

16. Person View?

18. Google Glass View via YouTube
Source: http://www.cnet.com/how-to/google-glass-adds-hangouts-youtube-ios-support-in-xe12/

19. “Sent Through Glass” Message
• “Let's start there, shall we? Before today, the only way
to take a photo with a wink was by way of a third-party
app. But now, Google's baked that functionality directly
into the Explorer Edition of Glass, making those sly
creepster shots even easier.
• Glassware's also getting a major boost with the
addition of Hangouts, for those of you that want to
send SMS, chats or even video calls from your head,
and YouTube for simple Glass video uploads.”
– Joseph Volpe, Engadget

20. From Satellite to Drone View to
‘Person as Sensor’ View
Original diagram Michael, Michael & Abbas, 2009; adapted with Perakslis 2013

21. From the AWACS
Airborne Warning And Control System

22. DashCams
Source: CHOICE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEJg6zW5oM8

24. Google Patents: Glass-on-a-Lens

25. Time Capsule. Courtesy of Eduardo Kac, 11 November 1997.

26. From the “Black Box” Flight Recorder

27. I Cyborg. Courtesy of Kevin Warwick, 14th of March 2002.

28. Uberveillance. Fifth Edition of the Macquarie Dictionary, 2009, p. 1094.

29. Uber Surveillance

30. Uberveillance
“Big Brother on the inside looking out”

32. To the Black Box in the Car

33. To the Black Box in “You”
Source: http://media.theage.com.au/technology/tech-talk/human-microchips-5354618.html

34. NTT DOCOMO
• i-mode
• i-appli
• i-area
• i-motion
• i-shot
• i-channel
• iD
APPLE INC.
• iTunes
• iPod
• iLife
• iSight
• iWork
• iPhone
• iPad
The Rise of the iPlant
An RFID Implantee X-Ray. Courtesy of Mr Amal Graafstra, 2007.

35. The Veillances
Hayes, 2010

36. Water, Energy & Climate Change
Limited Resources - Population Pressures

38. The Open Data Movement
• Internet of Everything
• Nothing should be private
• Look at the great things big data will herald
• The end of starving children in Africa
• The end of criminal activity by underground
networks
• No more corruption, only transparency
• Nowhere to hide
• Sensors everywhere

40. The Collective Awareness Movement
• Equitable access to energy
• Sharing energy toward sustainability
• Smart grids, smart homes, smart meters, smart
cars, smart phones, smart people
– What’s wrong with this model?
• I know who you are, where you live, what
condition you are in because of the energy you
draw
• If you have something your neighbour does not,
why not share it? Redistribution is great!

45. Where Have We Come From?

46. Emerging Technologies
• Fingerprint, DNA
• Facial recognition (e.g. Facebook)
• Location- geographic/ time of day
• Automatic Number Plate Recognition
• Condition monitoring
– Accelerometers, temperature sensors
• Gait and behavioural biometrics
• Point of view technologies
– Cameras, AV recorders
• Data is being stored in the Cloud
– Web-scraping techniques

47. Mass Surveillance vs Uberveillance
• Who? Where? When? What?
• If I know:
– who you are
– where you are
– what condition you are in
then I can denote what you are doing
Identity
Location
Condition
• “Human activity monitoring” of all people has
consequences for human rights

48. Where Are We Going?

49. Proactive Criminalisation
• The underlying premise:
– If I can use “big data” to
– (a) bring islands of information together
– (b) analyse both structured and unstructured data
in real-time or near-real time
– then there is a good chance that certain patterns
and trends will be revealed that may help me to
foil a plot to commit a crime, or even prevent a
crime.

51. Situational Awareness is about…
• Level 1
– Perception of elements in current situation
– We can call this the “cognition” phase
• Level 2
– Comprehension of current situation
– We can call this the “comprehension” phase
• Level 3
– Projection of future status
– We can call this the “perception” phase

52. http://wearcam.org/password-66-450.htm

53. Steve Mann © 1995-2009

55. http://glogger.mobi

57. Human Activity Monitoring
http://m.glogger.mobi/iphone/

58. My Location-Based Chronicles (2009-)

60. No Limits to Watching?
• Major implications for
privacy + security
• The sheep mentality
• Who are these #explorers?
• Pareto principle

61. Drone View (Nov. 2012)

62. Drone View (Nov. 2012)

63. Street View (Nov. 2012)
Credit: Mahmud Hams/Getty Images

64. 21 November 2012

66. Where Science Fiction Meets NOW
Image Sensor Accelerometer
Gyroscope Magnetometer
GPS
Altimeter

68. What is the Vision?

75. Interdisciplinary Research and
Complexity

76. System vs Lifeworld Rationality
Source: http://canada.iirp.edu/articles.html?articleId=632

77. Source: http://antaera.blogspot.com.au/2011/09/gaming-ecologies.html

78. Rossiter’s C-OAR-SE: Bipolar Attributes
http://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1198&context=buspapers

79. Technology LifeCycle Curve

80. Bar Code Magnetic-Stripe Card Smart Card Biometrics Transponder Implants
LESS INVASIVE HIGHLY INVASIVE
AUTO-ID INDUSTRY SELECTION ENVIRONMENT:
MIGRATION, INTEGRATION OR CONVERGENCE?

81. Rogers Diffusion of Innovation

82. Trajectory to the Next Curve: Lessons
from the Auto-ID Industry

83. The Coming Age of Uberveillance
• An implantable chip (an i-plant) that acts like a blackbox recorder
– Identity, location, condition, and even stores photographs
– Big Brother on the inside looking out
– No longer can mistakes be made in private
• In a contactless manner the i-plant is able to record and connect touch points
between the individual and the world around them (dubbed person view,
Internet of Everything)
• It is an all-hazards approach to security
– It contains various forms of securitization
• Economic, political, social, environmental
• An attempt at omniscience but at best achieves omnipresence- the ubiquity is
not fool proof
– The “New Visibility” is prone to misinformation, misrepresentation,
information manipulation

84. The “Zoe Implant”
• IMDb writes of the The Final Cut directed by
Omar Naim:
– "Set in a world with memory implants, Robin
Williams plays a cutter, someone with the power
of final edit over people's recorded histories. His
latest assignment is one that puts him in danger.“
– The issue at hand is incredibly relevant to point of
view technologies- he who has the power to
delete has the ultimate power.”

85. The Final Cut

86. Disappearing People from a Scene

87. Conclusion

88. THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM – DO YOU CHOOSE TO SEE IT?

89. The Predator and the Prey
• What we build will come back to bite us.
– The panacea of the Internet of Everything
– The packbots with the claws and payloads
– The aerial drones that will deliver books + beer
– The police with the wearable technologies
– The glass that will soon see through walls
– The throwaway printers and mobile phones
– The 3D printers which will just exacerbate
• So I ask you- what is your lifeworld again?
• Who are you? Bring that person to the table each day
– Don’t leave your ethics at the door
• The danger is that we exert too much control only to one day wake up and
realise the nightmare scenario that we have exerted all that effort and the
one we’ve been trying to catch and contain is our very own selves