Comments on: The Bionic Eye http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2008/11/the_bionic_eye_1.html The Law, the Universe, and Everything Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:18:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Bionic eyes: Engineers create contact lenses with integrated circuitry « Garis Pang http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2008/11/the_bionic_eye_1.html/comment-page-1#comment-64296 Bionic eyes: Engineers create contact lenses with integrated circuitry « Garis Pang Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:09:56 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2008/11/the-bionic-eye.html#comment-64296 [...] contact lenses with integrated circuitry. This achievement could lay the groundwork for the “bionic eye,” and another element of science fiction will join the ranks of simple science: According to [...] [...] contact lenses with integrated circuitry. This achievement could lay the groundwork for the “bionic eye,” and another element of science fiction will join the ranks of simple science: According to [...]

]]> By: Danielle Citron http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2008/11/the_bionic_eye_1.html/comment-page-1#comment-46184 Danielle Citron Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:39:32 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2008/11/the-bionic-eye.html#comment-46184 Thanks to all for your terrific comments. Yes, one can imagine all kinds of uses for these lenses and I merely scratched the surface. But as A.J. Sutter notes wisely, these lenses and their potential uses, however widesweeping they may be, raise important privacy issues. Lior's excellent article addresses a few of them and we share a concern about the role that anonymity plays in anti-social behavior (for me, it is anonymous groups who attack vulnerable people online). I would be interested in hearing everyone's thoughts on the various privacy issues and sought to raise the question. Thanks, as always, for such great comments. DKC Thanks to all for your terrific comments. Yes, one can imagine all kinds of uses for these lenses and I merely scratched the surface. But as A.J. Sutter notes wisely, these lenses and their potential uses, however widesweeping they may be, raise important privacy issues. Lior’s excellent article addresses a few of them and we share a concern about the role that anonymity plays in anti-social behavior (for me, it is anonymous groups who attack vulnerable people online). I would be interested in hearing everyone’s thoughts on the various privacy issues and sought to raise the question.

Thanks, as always, for such great comments.

DKC

]]> By: Danielle Citron http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2008/11/the_bionic_eye_1.html/comment-page-1#comment-46183 Danielle Citron Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:38:44 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2008/11/the-bionic-eye.html#comment-46183 Thanks to all for your terrific comments. Yes, one can imagine all kinds of uses for these lenses and I merely scratched the surface. But as A.J. Sutter notes wisely, these lenses and their potential uses, however widesweeping they may be, raise important privacy issues. Lior's excellent article addresses a few of them and we share a concern about the role that anonymity plays in anti-social behavior (for me, it is anonymous groups who attack vulnerable people online). I would be interested in hearing everyone's thoughts on the various privacy issues and sought to raise the question. Thanks, as always, for such great comments. DKC Thanks to all for your terrific comments. Yes, one can imagine all kinds of uses for these lenses and I merely scratched the surface. But as A.J. Sutter notes wisely, these lenses and their potential uses, however widesweeping they may be, raise important privacy issues. Lior’s excellent article addresses a few of them and we share a concern about the role that anonymity plays in anti-social behavior (for me, it is anonymous groups who attack vulnerable people online). I would be interested in hearing everyone’s thoughts on the various privacy issues and sought to raise the question.

Thanks, as always, for such great comments.

DKC

]]> By: A.J. Sutter http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2008/11/the_bionic_eye_1.html/comment-page-1#comment-46182 A.J. Sutter Wed, 12 Nov 2008 06:21:10 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2008/11/the-bionic-eye.html#comment-46182 I think it's a bit strong to say that the researchers "hope" for the zooming capability. The proposals mentioned in the U. Wash. <a href="http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=39094" rel="nofollow">press release<a> are more modest. The reference to "zoom[ing] in" to see "useful facts" appears only in the press agent's intoductory mention of fictional characters like Terminator. Even the EE Times story you link to speaks of "zooming" in a more conjectural tone, and doesn't clearly attribute the that topic to the researchers. Nor are police applications mentioned. Your post gives an interesting contrast in thinking about means and ends. You spend a lot of time talking about the goal of reducing reckless driving, and alleviating drivers' feelings of "frustration" and "helplessness". But the (putative) zoom lenses' possible impact on behavior generally, and on privacy, are just mentioned in passing. (I leave aside the issue of whether roads really will be made safer if drivers are zooming in on distant license plates and then reporting wirelessly to the police, all while continuing to drive.) For the sake of less reckless driving, is it really worth encouraging everyone to spy on each other? What kind of society would that be? Why would use of the lenses be limited to reporting driving misconduct? Certainly there is a lot of "antisocial behavior" that could be reduced by reducing anonymity. What else might be deterred? Are the downsides of your proposal worth only such a casual mention? </a></a> I think it’s a bit strong to say that the researchers “hope” for the zooming capability. The proposals mentioned in the U. Wash. press release are more modest. The reference to “zoom[ing] in” to see “useful facts” appears only in the press agent’s intoductory mention of fictional characters like Terminator. Even the EE Times story you link to speaks of “zooming” in a more conjectural tone, and doesn’t clearly attribute the that topic to the researchers. Nor are police applications mentioned.

Your post gives an interesting contrast in thinking about means and ends. You spend a lot of time talking about the goal of reducing reckless driving, and alleviating drivers’ feelings of “frustration” and “helplessness”. But the (putative) zoom lenses’ possible impact on behavior generally, and on privacy, are just mentioned in passing. (I leave aside the issue of whether roads really will be made safer if drivers are zooming in on distant license plates and then reporting wirelessly to the police, all while continuing to drive.)

For the sake of less reckless driving, is it really worth encouraging everyone to spy on each other? What kind of society would that be? Why would use of the lenses be limited to reporting driving misconduct? Certainly there is a lot of “antisocial behavior” that could be reduced by reducing anonymity. What else might be deterred? Are the downsides of your proposal worth only such a casual mention?

]]> By: isabel pietri http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2008/11/the_bionic_eye_1.html/comment-page-1#comment-46181 isabel pietri Wed, 12 Nov 2008 05:44:26 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2008/11/the-bionic-eye.html#comment-46181 I guess all the cats and dogs on which these were tested on can really tell us all about it. This is a good subject for PETA to discuss! I guess all the cats and dogs on which these were tested on can really tell us all about it. This is a good subject for PETA to discuss!

]]> By: Michael Renteria http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2008/11/the_bionic_eye_1.html/comment-page-1#comment-46180 Michael Renteria Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:18:03 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2008/11/the-bionic-eye.html#comment-46180 You have only scratched the surface of the uses for this. Imagine every Policeman wearing these, talk about a dashboard cam. And any couple that had an arguement about who said what would quickly be resolved, or would it? Maybe it would be best of it didn't work.Just a thought. You have only scratched the surface of the uses for this. Imagine every Policeman wearing these, talk about a dashboard cam. And any couple that had an arguement about who said what would quickly be resolved, or would it? Maybe it would be best of it didn’t work.Just a thought.

]]> By: Doug http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2008/11/the_bionic_eye_1.html/comment-page-1#comment-46179 Doug Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:31:14 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2008/11/the-bionic-eye.html#comment-46179 Will it also let me turn in people that hold up traffic by driving slowly in the fast lane? Will it also let me turn in people that hold up traffic by driving slowly in the fast lane?

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