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RANT #3

4 AM Thoughts on a 55 mph Highway

Last weekend I was driving 20 mph over the speed limit on an empty highway at 4 am.

And I glanced down at my Google Maps and had the thought "in 20 years this will all be gone." There was a red number that showed how fast I was going and location tracking that's on even when I turn it off.

And Visa, Mastercard, and American Express recently announced that they'll be cooperating with police on tracking and reporting gun sales. Some people see this as hopeful. I don't have it in me to be hopeful.

Because everything is connected and everything is tracked and when corporations cooperate they don't ask to see the warrant. And Google knows my location and Samsung knows my phone account and the government knows my license plate and where I live, and I'm breaking the law without seeing another car or a curve in the road for 60 miles.

And in the future there will be no speed traps. There'll be a program that sends my Google Maps speed from Google to the three jurisdictions I passed through. And in the future there will be no passing lanes. There'll be a lane for people who can afford to speed and a lane for people who have to watch their Google Maps to keep from going 1 mph over.

And in the future I won't be able to go 75 in a 55 zone at 4 am when there's not another car for miles.