Robert Scoble

Here's the other side of PRISM. Is this worth giving up some of our privacy? Congress has said yes 13 times so far and reevaluates this every few months.

Educated minds can disagree. I'm so happy that we've had mostly a great debate here the past few days.

Now onto other stuff, Apple news coming in the morning.

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?

Google Glass's ability to capture kids in funny situations is totally missing in debates about this product. Thanks Andy Grignon (he was on the first iPhone team) for a fun evening (he's building a cool Glass app coming next year, congrats to him on closing funding for his new company, too, Quake Labs, Inc. but I'll let him spill the beans on that).

One app made me love Android and BLOWS AWAY iOS. One app. Shows just how much a small team can do to change my world.

The app? http://corp.everything.me/ More on Gillmor Gang when it gets posted to Techcrunch today and I'll do a comparison to iOS 7 after Apple announces it.

Open systems are the future. Everything.me made my phone much more productive than my iPhone. Apple needs to open up and open up in a major way. Android is starting to pull ahead BECAUSE of its openness.

Reading Techcrunch's comments this morning, here, you see there is generally a mistrust of both press and government

Yet WE now are the press. Plus we continue to vote for people who simply aren't technically astute. SOPA proved that. My visits to Washington DC revealed many in power who don't even answer their own email or do their own social media.

We get the government we deserve. Unfortunately the system is aligned against educated people. Look at how many races are won on wedge issues like abortion, gay marriage, etc.

I wish we had a technically-astute culture in this country where you have to have at least some common tech knowledge to run for office and you have to spend some time with your local startup community to even be eligible to run.

But this is America where our political system is very broken and the press isn't much better. The politicians listen to special interests who can bring lots of money for reelection campaigns. The press goes after sensational targets that can bring page views (watch how many press go to Apple's conference next week vs. attend even the better startup launch demo days).

The problems we have a systemic and start with US.

We are the problem and I don't see us changing fast enough to keep up with the demands of a modern society.

Me included and I'm struggling to write a book about the future with Shel Israel. The future is coming at us so fast and with such an ability to be tracked that we need a new conversation in this country.

I don't know how you can regain trust in the government, big companies, or the press, without everyone getting involved and stop paying attention to stupid issues that really don't matter at the end of the day.

I guess I'm a dreamer. But I hope I'm not the only one.

I bet PRISM has quite fun figuring out what I am up to.

First of all my last declared religion is Muslim. Did that so I could marry Maryam Ghaemmaghami Scoble in Iranian tradition.

We call Iran a lot.

I have been know to search for bomb-making tips (mostly to see what the Boston Bombers might have found on the Internet). When I was a kid I used to blow things up.

I was hanging out with a Cuban citizen a few weeks ago.

I had lunch with the Israeli President and some Palestinian students in Davis once.

I was just in China and have hung out recently with a Chinese government official.

I guess if anyone should worry about what the American Government is doing it should be me.

Better living through radiation and drugs: Another "naked Scoble" photo of a different type! ;-)