Nils Pihl, CEO and Founder of Auki Labs, is an entrepreneur, behavioral engineer and social transhumanist specializing in the intersection of modern technology and human behavior.
It’s the year 2030 and you’ve sent your humanoid robot to go buy ketchup at the grocery store. It’s a capable walker, it has dexterous hands, and it can carry more groceries than any parent. High-resolution cameras, gyroscopes and pressure sensors help the robot move quietly through the aisles with such grace that you almost forget that it is hopelessly lost.
In the last decade, critics raised many privacy concerns and lawsuits related to WiFi triangulation And it is fair to say that, unfortunately, privacy lost that battle. It is of some consolation, perhaps, that WiFi triangulation still only helps the average user position themselves to within a few meters — not enough for our ketchup-fetching robot to even correctly understand what aisle it’s in.
But that should make us pause. Remembering the many privacy violations of the simpler bygone days of mobile social media — how will we fare when big tech companies can see the world through our very eyes, and our homes and private spaces through our machine companions?If you walk into a grocery store and start filming the shelves you’ll quickly find yourself escorted out of the store.
The attentive reader will already spot where DePIN is promising to outperform the giants of the Web2 era, and bring us our ketchup in a privacy-preserving way.
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