" Once you've lost your privacy, you realize
you've lost an extremely valuable thing."
- Billy Graham
Today I was looking up an answer to a random
question on my phone; I imagine this is a common
occurrence seeing as 56 % of American adults
have smartphones now. So I'm on Google when
I notice searches on my drop down bar that I have not
searched. Later in the evening, laptop in tow, I come
upon the discovery that since the computer and cell
phone are synched technology was just keeping it
all updated. This is a simple realization on my part;
however, simple realizations lead to complex thoughts.
This was my thought process:
Hypothetically speaking of course, what if people loved
their cell phones? Emphasis on truly loved their cell phones.
What if cell phones could not only call your friends but
text message them, send them pictures and videos,
could connect multiple people at the same time,
and you could even talk to each other face to face?
What if phones could slowly replace pencil and paper,
and books, and magazines, and newspapers.
What if there were apps for all of those things?
What time is it?
Time for you to get a smartphone.
It can wake you up in the morning, and it can
remind you to tell Aunt Sally happy birthday…
… If you remember to tell it to.
Jeez, with a cell phone you may never need a flash-light again.
You wouldn't need a digital camera anymore.
You could always know the temperature or the weather.
You wouldn't need an mp3 player.
You might be able to look up any song online and play it.
If you had an auxiliary chord in your car,
you wouldn't even need the radio.
And if you were in your car it would be hard to get lost
because you would have your own built in GPS.
Which could also mean smartphone users could be
constantly tracked. Tracked sounds threatening.
Since this is all hypothetical, we will say
smartphone users could be easily located at most times.
Not just by GPS though.Smartphones would have to be super cool so everyone would
love them. They'd keep up with the trends: emails, tweets, Facebook.
And if you were a smartphone user with a Facebook, chances in this
virtual world would be that Facebook would eventually add a feature that
not only tagged your location with every message, but also gave you the
option to "check in" so that you could personally share with all of your virtual
community exactly where you were.
Now even more hypothetically, at this point the government of this 56%
has seen the trend of smartphone users rise from two years previous where
a lesser 35% of adults would have had smartphones.
And hypothetically this government might see the benefits of having this knowledge,
if knowledge is power.
And what kind of knowledge could this possibly be?
I would presume that only a number would be needed on a specific anybody
to decrypt the truth of an individual.
What they could have read, things they might like browsing on the internet,
where they have been what their political interest could be, or who they may have talked to.
Everything would probably be all synched up.
Then maybe citizens lives would be able to be documented hour by hour.
Preserved like records. Probably every person, myself included, probably loving dearly
their own little spy.
But this is all hypothetical. I would never fall for something like that.
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Forbes Link (Very Interesting)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/josephsteinberg/2013/06/04/your-smartphone-can-photograph-you-and-share-the-pictures-without-your-knowledge/
Forbes Link (Smartphone Users Increase)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/markrogowsky/2013/06/06/more-than-half-of-us-have-smartphones-giving-apple-and-google-much-to-smile-about/
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