From 085930e4f4efea7b952980a23073899246cd8622 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sean Dockray Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2020 23:49:15 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] adding bibliography --- content/topic/listening-with-the-pandemic.md | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/topic/listening-with-the-pandemic.md b/content/topic/listening-with-the-pandemic.md index 369ff7d..9ca75d6 100644 --- a/content/topic/listening-with-the-pandemic.md +++ b/content/topic/listening-with-the-pandemic.md @@ -46,4 +46,7 @@ Elderly relatives are monitored like Tomagotchi pets in Google Home patents. Sys 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. \ No newline at end of file +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. + +# Bibliography +