Posted on 05/21/2018 9:40:25 AM PDT by Maudeen
Don't get me wrong-when I am old and can't get out of wherever I am living and interact in society, having a computer based option to interact is at least something. Self-driving cars, for the day (when it comes) that I cannot drive is okay with me. (Although I admit that I view self-driving cars in much the same way I view death...it isn't death itself that bothers me, it is how I get there that does!)
Excellent expose’. Computer/Information Technology by itself is not the problem as it is merely a tool. The problem though, with this sort of tool is the amplification factor. The asymptotic rate of good or evil conducted with these devices is astounding and apparent in near real-time.
Chipped for an employer? Then when I leave the company I have to get a doctor to dig it out? I’ll be sure to get an infection and sue them for it.
Um...no.
Would certainly make it easier to track me.
....”There is an entire culture of people who have never observed or seen many significant things with their own eyes.
They have only seen it through the viewfinder of a smartphone...It has destroyed something in society.”....
They’re having a profound effect on the youth ... making them seriously unhappy...they’re depressed screen addicts because of lack of parental attention.
You don’t think I’d sue them? lol I got news for you. :)
uhhh.....no.
Then again I appear to be the only guy on my block who put up a battle against smart meters too.
I think you have hit on a major part of it.
The changes wrought by the use of technology like this are so rapid, so profound and often fundamental that by the time any of us can raise our hand and say "Ummm...this might not be a good thing..." we have already moved on into the second or third generation of offshoots from it, and that bell cannot be un-rung.
Honestly, it is a bit breathtaking.
I like smart meters. That eliminated the excuse for three people coming on my property once every month.
And doesn’t say put a computer chip in your right hand. It says a mark. You see a mark and a computer chip are very different things. I’m sure God knows the difference.
I’ll be honest-I see videogames, and I thank God we did not have them when I was a kid.
I know for a fact, I would have been one of those kids who never go outside because they are holed up playing some massive online game.
It depresses me, because I KNOW I would have been one of those kids. The visual and interactive part is just too attractive NOT to do that to me.
Instead of being bored and exploring your surroundings, going further and further away from your house (perhaps even doing things you shouldn’t) you can go right to your room with your own flat screen television, internet connection, and game console, and you will never, ever be bored.
That does sadden me.
Not a chance.
Agree.. wouldn’t implant one by any means but in reality we’re all being tracked and marketed on a daily basis. If you have a smart phone every text and phone call is recorded so turning off the location tracker helps but if you sent a text or made a call “they” know where you were.
Anytime you use a credit card every purchase is recorded and that data is sold to folks. They know when & where and probably have a camera image as well.
Drive?? Cameras are everywhere and they track you.
You might not get chipped like a dog or cat but “they” still have a lot of info on you.
What pisses me off are the credit bureaus like Equifax, Experian, Transunion.. they sell all of your data, get hacked and lose your data then want to sell you a protection plan to protect your data.
I’d like to see a law where no personal information can be bought, sold or traded without written consent of the individual.
Indeed it is. The fundamental issue I see with any tech is that the designers fail to think nefariously at the inception. They create like the atheist scientist who experiments just for the sake of experimentation, without thought of 'should we do such a thing'. I am fairly certain that the person who first invented the hammer had no thought to how easily it could kill another man.
Jurassic Park comes to mind...
First it will be a privilege. Then it will be a requirement. Then they will cut your head off if you refuse.
I sure you don’t want to believe.
I feel the same way. I would have been one of those kids. Can you imagine thinking you know about the world around by seeing it all on a screen as opposed to spending hours in the fields, woods and creek bottoms? Instead of bicycling all around town and everywhere else?
Learning about weather on a computer instead of getting soaked to the bone two miles from home or having to find shelter from a hail storm in 30 seconds and laughing your arse off with your friends about how scared you were and how you survived your high adventures?
No way! My childhood was magnificent in all its stinky, bloody, bruised and sunburned glory.
LOL, of COURSE Jurassic Park comes to mind...it was a good illustration case.
Many people honestly do things and think it would be great for mankind, but as we all know, there is a duality to things.
A baseball bat can take your breath away with a late inning home run in a World Series, or it can bash your brain in to facilitate the theft of your belongings.
Many people are normal, and have good intentions. But few people write a program with the thought “Gee. What if someone used it to do this BAD thing?”
And we all know how tempting it is to see if some “task” can be done with a computer, just because...well...it can be done.
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