The Irrefutable History of You: Distributed Ledgers and Semantics for Ubiquitous Personal Ratings

Third, Allan and Domingue, John (2017). The Irrefutable History of You: Distributed Ledgers and Semantics for Ubiquitous Personal Ratings. In: Re-coding Black Mirror 2017 Workshop, 22 Oct 2017, Vienna, Austria.

URL: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1939/paper3.pdf

Abstract

A recurring theme in the science-fiction series Black Mirror is the consequence for society of an over-focus on social networking. The episode Nosedive imagines a future in which every public interaction a person has is rated by the other parties, and every aspect of ones life depends on the overall rating computed from these. In this paper, we show how such a scenario is already technically possible using existing technologies such as distributed ledgers, and discuss means by which the negative possibilities may be ameliorated using semantic approaches.

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