Friday, March 11, 2005

data-driven Mein-something-or-other

If you were prepared for it, you might already be drugged. If you were not thinking about it, you would be very normal.

As individuals we can't know what will happen. As a group, we have no awareness that translates into a spoken word.

When your life can be tracked, you can be budgeted in terms of society: consumption, relative value of your person based on your age, your insurance, your 401K, your importance at work. Once tracked, you can be analyzed and costed in a particular point in time.

Costed once in a point in time means that you can be costed again, and costed any additional number of times. It takes twice to set a trajectory or path, and if you have several measurements of several lives, you can set them in an index against each other.

Once indexed, you can then gather additional data on other individuals associated with a particular person.

Once the group of associates has been costed and indexed, it can be compared to other groups. Groups can be formed over relative factors like consumption, education, or what have you.

If you were a cost conscious government, you could decide on this basis whether to allow one group to proceed along a particular vector, consuming resources and government attention and resources, or, whether to terminate the group, the associates, or, specific individuals.

Polling was the forerunner of this approach. Currently, data assessment and the ability to increase the collection of data on key factors are the sticking points. Once these are overcome, an accurate flexible decision-guiding mechanism will be available.

1 Comments:

Blogger Mark Stivers said...

Jaw-droppingly brilliant. More people should read what you write.

March 13, 2005 at 8:56 AM  

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