Plugimi (Sascha Pohflepp)

While at the Eurolab future-scenario workshop in Girona, we had these bold ideas about everyone being equipped with tiny digital cameras. So when everyone almost always records images and makes them publicly accessible, you eventually would get something like an enormous cultural heritage. In the future you could search the web for some event or incident or person and you would get an infinity of perspectives and personal takes. A memory palace for the world to share.

Well, looking at the photos tagged with 22C3, the recent event here in Berlin, it occured to me that this has already happened. You could argue that the hackers are probably super-early-adopters but just give it a short while and your dog will do it (or does it already).

Back to using Plazes, I was wondering if the geodata wouldn’t be better used in a mischievous way? After all, you don’t only know where people are, you also know where there are not. So, instead of the buddy list, it should be easy to hack something like a baddie’s list which shows all of the users that are currently not at home.