With that said, I do believe that more people will independently produce their own reality programs about their life, but that group will be small in size - and even they won’t clip a camera under their chin to document their EVERY MOMENT.

But please don’t get me wrong… I’m right there with you in the idea about reality programming being more prominent on the web. Actually, I believe it will happen so much that I’m in the business of producing for public figures an online reality program about their life. I’ve written a little bit about my perspective on this topic on a blog that I’ve periodically updated. Here’s the link…

http://www.IAmGHOSTBLOGGER.com

I’m sorry to seem like I totally disagree with your perspective - I’m actually right there with you on so much of what you’ve said. All in all, this has been a great article ;-)

1. All phone carriers will start supporting all-you-can-eat data plans, and they’ll get much cheaper. 2. The bandwidth (both download and upload) on said services will increase very rapidly, e.g. the next network upgrade after 3G is going to be scary fast (try between 100-300Mb). 3. All mobile phones are going to do video, and they will all ride these newer, faster networks. 4. Within the next ten years a significant percentage of people in first-world countries are going to be broadcasting every moment of their waking lives (and in many cases their sleeping lives as well). Lol, this is total bs

So they don’t have to do the V for Vendetta cameras like the U.K.; they just let US do the capturing and uploading. Then the government walk into Google and say, “Nice. Now give us what you have on all of your incoming casts.”

In all fairness, I am, in fact, a honkey.

Nice overview article. Well thought out. You’ve seemed to focus on mostly negative issues though.

When you go to the mall now and and see everyone walking around talking to people on their cellphones, that are likely in a different mall, it’s not hard to imagine a world where you jump from “place to place” from your mobile looking at what your friends are casting.

That’s probably the key though, most people are probably going to point the camera away form them at what they are looking at and not at theirselves, so yeah, you’ll be on someone elses lifecast, but they won’t know who you are, you won’t get tagged, and everyone will be so self involved they won’t have much time to watch your life, because frankly “your life” (in the general sense) isn’t that interesting.

Most people don’t read other people’s blogs, and they’re not likely to watch too many other peoples lifecasts either, becasue they won’t have the time, they’ll be way too much video of “interesting” people to keep up with to bother stalking the local food court.

Anonymity for the most part will be in the sheer overwhelming volume of data out there. Sure if something remarkable happens it’ll be online quickly, but that’s already the case for the most part, and things are fine. It’s all going to be ok I think. We’re just going from 500 channels to 5 billion channels is all.

MobileNOB ’send to mobile’ button will allowed the service you present in your blog. Allowing Web Video Portals to implement a small script in their website (’send to mobile’) that will allow users to send every video from the website to their mobile handsets in real time, all on the FLY. Its support more than 500 different mobile video formats that will bring best end user screening experience when watching the video on their handset. Beside the fact as you said that Operators will introduce Data packages for end users, video portal website owners can generate profit from the service and make their videos on the web profitable, by making them downloadable for mobile http://www.mobilenob.com

I have little doubt that there are serious efforts by all types of government and non-government organizations to get to this state.

It will be interesting to see how first amendment protection will be used. What do you do if a Chinese tourist lifecasts something in Des Moines to a Tanzanian website? Can the person who’s privacy was violated sue or do anything to protect himself? Who’s jurisdiction?

Quit doing so much crack, take a deep breathe and smoke a joint maybe?

Just kidding!

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I suggest you read “Snowcrash” by Neal Stephenson, where the “hero” turns himself into what’s called in the book a “gargoyle”. Won’t spoil it for you by telling you what it is.

– Arik