Tech Bones

As I've pointed out in the past, activity tracking and data mining are increasingly becoming more sophisticated. Once they approach being a real science, maintaining personal privacy becomes less feasible. The following article in Forbes' demonstrates how close we are to that time... How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/ If you think your browser settings protect you from such efforts, think again... Google tracked iPhones, bypassing Apple browser privacy settings http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/02/17/google-tracked-iphones-bypassing-apple-browser-privacy-settings/ It's getting harder to maintain any sense of privacy. . . .

A picture is worth a thousands words... Or explanations.

With apologies to the producers of the movie 'Top Gun', no better example of "The Need For Speed" has ever existed than a technology user, as exemplified by the following cartoon...   Thanks to Jorge Cham at http://www.PHPComics.com for illustrating this point so well. . . .