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Google knows you can get away with things in assisted living facilities that you couldn't in the city outside. Or not yet anyway. Nursing homes and their residents are already socially isolated, already underfunded, already sites of exploitation and abuse: ready and waiting for a magic bullet offered out of the goodness of some billionaire's heart. This is a context in which companies can proclaim in all seriousness that "Continuous monitoring offers greater privacy," where automated care and the total surveillance it entails justifies the absence of human care as a new feature: *greater privacy*.
For such an ambient sensing environment to work, this very environment must be designed and shaped with embedded cameras and microphones in mind. Every room becomes a studio. Background noise must be minimized to make objects and sounds a little more legible. And we know that such environmental design doesn't stop at objects and spaces: it reshapes our own patterns of speaking and living as we learn to enunciate with a cadence, accent and tone that an algorithm can understand.
For such an ambient sensing environment to work, this very environment must be designed and shaped with embedded cameras and microphones in mind. Every room becomes a studio. Background noise must be minimized to make objects and sounds a little more legible. And we know that such environmental design doesn't stop at objects and spaces: it reshapes our own patterns of speaking and living as we learn to enunciate with a cadence, accent and tone that an algorithm can understand.
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