Skaldian Hypothetical Experiment: Your daily life completely recorded.

[Procrustus]

Originally Posted by BigT View Post
There is sufficient information to identify someone by the restrictions you have given. I voted incorrectly, assuming that anonymity was much better. No identification, no problems. I don’t get people who want privacy just because. The only reason to want privacy is if you suspect someone will do something nefarious with the information they have on you.

There are things my wife and I do in the bedroom that I am not at all ashamed of, yet I would not want recorded and seen by anyone else. (only partially because I have to lose 20 pounds). I don’t for a moment think anyone would do any thing “nefarious” with that video, but I certainly think it being recorded would restrict the enthusiasm we both enjoy.

[Mangetout]

@BigT

I don’t get people who want privacy just because. The only reason to want privacy is if you suspect someone will do something nefarious with the information they have on you.

I don’t get why you find privacy such an impenetrable idea.

[John_DiFool]

Relevant Non Sequitur strip from today…

[Mangetout]

@BigT

There is sufficient information to identify someone by the restrictions you have given. I voted incorrectly, assuming that anonymity was much better. No identification, no problems. I don’t get people who want privacy just because. The only reason to want privacy is if you suspect someone will do something nefarious with the information they have on you.

Similarly, the only reason to ever want peace and quiet is if the noise level is such that there is risk of hearing damage.

[Quartz]

So I can’t take the thing off in the shower? Or while playing sports? A cricket ball to the face is bad enough, but to compound it with splinters of glass in my eyes…

[Rushgeekgirl]

Nope I don’t want anyone seeing me poop. Not just that, but the clean-up afterwards.

[Roland_Orzabal]

Yeah, promises of anonymity are fantastic; the methodology is something else again. With the parameters you’ve specified, anyone who knows me — let alone works with me, which is my primary concern — is going to identify me anyway within minutes of starting to watch my feed.

Add a couple of zeroes onto the asking price, and you might capture my interest. Setting me up for life (or at least the majority of my years) might be enough to start me thinking about redefining my existence for a few months to become The Most Unintersting Man In The World. Anything short of that, and you can ram it up your ass. (Hypothetically speaking, of course, though I imagine a proctologist’s Google Glass stream might capture more interest than expected.)

[JustinC]

I’d try for as much money as possible, then set off on a holiday for 6 months; somewhere tropical and hot, so I can’t help but look at scantily-clad women on the beach … possibly Rio or Cuba. Once there and when bored of the beach I can either read The Straight Dope or work on a Master’s.

I think it would be a rather dull two-part, 8-hour, documentary but there would be enough highlights for a teaser.

[AaronX]

So I can’t take them off or turn them off, but you didn’t say I can’t wear a bag over my head? And what’s the viewing angle of Glasses? I’m sure it’s less than the human eyes’, so you can actually see things without them being recorded.

I’d consider this. In fact I’m already considering doing this myself. Haven’t you ever seen something and thought, “I wish I’d recorded that!”?