Greetings steemit explorers,
Here is an ICO that feels so creepy that I would not even put a penny into it. I referred recently in a blog https://steemit.com/life/@birdsong/we-re-not-in-kansas-any-more about an episode S3:E1-Nosedive in the Netflix series "Black Mirror" where personality types are continually massaged and reinforced, and where everyone rates their interactions with people and your social status is reflected in your continually changing rating. Well this ICO sentigraph.io looks to be taking us on this path.
This is from their home page:
“Take a moment to think about the events that occur in your life, school, place of work, city, and the world at large. Have you thought about how they affect our emotions, moods, and state of mind? How about the feelings of your friends, loved ones and neighbors. s3ntigraph is a concise, carefully implemented distributed application that will keep track of your sentiments each time you communicate with it, as well as that of your "neighbors" in the blockchain network. s3ntigraph is able to do this with the help of IBM's Watson! s3ntigraph will not only keep the cumulative sentiments of all neighbors, but will chart them. The team at s3ntigraph is highly and sincerely dedicated in making the world a better place.”
While this is from their white paper:
“Happiness is the “nucleus” of our lives. In as much as we try to stay happy by conditioning our minds, it still is gravely affected by external inputs and impulses. Thus, we need a way to dynamically track the overall happiness or sentiments of any arbitrary participant. This data will help any authority, parent, teacher, governing body etc., understand how their daily decisions directly affect the lives of their constituents, students, citizens etc.”
Technology is just technology. But how it is used is the important thing. For centuries we have been manipulated and coerced into heading down a path that by and large has not been to the benefit of the bulk of humanity. The crypto space has the potential to turn this around by empowering people and sharing the wealth. To me, what sentigraph is proposing is simply another way to gather information in order to control humanity. A big thumbs down from me.
Cheers