Tech to make you sick, Mark Morford
Feeling damp? A little pale? I bet you are. I bet you’re not feeling well at all. I can tell from way over here.
Jesus, just look at you. Feverish and scratchy, flu-like and achy in your bones. And no wonder! Just look where you are right now! You’re hanging around that neighborhood. In that city. In that café. Don’t you realize there are sick people all around you? What’s wrong with you? Get the hell out of there!
How do I know all this? Because I’m tracking you, silly. I’m keeping a very close watch on all you oozing, coughing sickos out there in whichever snotty hotbed of phlegmy grossness you like to cluster, because, well, because it’s nearly 2014. This is what we do now.
I’m also doing it because there’s a spiffy little app out there called Sickweather, co-created by one (presumably quite paranoid) gentleman named Graham who apparently became simultaneously very ill and very angry one day, and decided that what the world needs now is a way to calculate, via aggregating “data” from Facebook and Twitter and satellites and the random screaming of children and dogs, just where all the gross, unappealing sick people like you are gathering right now, plot it all on a map in (more or less) real time and then avoid all the afflicted cities, neighborhoods, airports, schools or steamy backroom brothels like the goddamn plague.
the rest: http://blog.sfgate.com/morford/2013/12/17/tech-to-make-you-sick/
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