Robert Scoble

Totally agree with this. If Waze goes to Google a huge piece of Age of Context is locked up. google is totally in the power seat now.

My opinion often differs than the one I should take to further Rackspace's business interests.

It is interesting whenever people call me to task on that. Funny enough Rackspace never does. In this case a commenter or two is calling me on my PRISM stance on the post I made last night.

My opinions here have not been vetted by others at Rackspace and I pinch myself every day that I work for such a cool company that lets me come to my own conclusions even if those conclusions might not be in the best business interests of Rackspace.

Educated people can come to different decisions than you do. With PRISM most senators and the President came to the conclusion I did. This could end up costing Rackspace lots of business, particularly from overseas customers. Many of my coworkers and bosses disagree with me. But to their credit they let me take my own opinions in public.

So far we might not have a strong fourth amendment in the US but I am glad I still have the first.

If you want Rackspace to comment officially I will get our execs to do so.

Onward! I wish more companies were like Rackspace.

Why is the PRISM story going to disappear within two weeks?

30,000+ people die in cars every year in the US. We don't care. We get into cars every day. We really don't care about this threat. Even though the consequences are MUCH worse than anything PRISM does. The good of driving outweighs the bad of death, etc.

PRISM hasn't killed anyone (that I know of) and possibly has saved us from harm. We really don't care about our loss of privacy (I see it every day as I look around at everyone using grocery store loyalty cards, credit cards, and hand over a ton of data to big companies from Casinos to Hotels to social networks).

We are still headed into an Age of Context where systems are going to use our private data to see new patterns and help us live our lives and companies will use that contextual data to serve us better. And governments will continue to use them to spy on us (aka try to catch terrorists). Either way, the good far outweighs the bad. So we will continue to push into the future. This week will just be a slight speedbump.

Anyway, where were you all when cameras started appearing everywhere taking photos of people running red lights in San Francisco?

Truth is, we give away our liberties and privacy all the time. The Golden Gate Bridge just turned on cameras that capture everyone's license plate. Do we care? No, because now getting across the bridge is one to 15 minutes faster.

I just can't see the story lasting more than two weeks.

Do you disagree? Why?