Technology & Big Brother

[TN_Vixen]

Last night I watched a video that my parents had made for my grandmother's 90th birthday. It was a tape that faded in and out pictures from the most recent grandchild of our extended family to date -- this video is 3 yrs. old... anyway, point is, I saw pictures of my mother and aunt when they were children (1943) and the technological changes just over the last 60 yrs were tremendous and are moving at such a fast clip that we all are left shaking our collective heads at the wonder of it all.

Now we're getting to the stage where the internet, cellphones, television, workplace, shopping, and anything else we can imagine can all be interconnected in one single medium that contains the power to trace and record every movement of every citizen.

Doesn't this actuality make anyone else uncomfortable?

 

[Laurel]

Yeah...It's very exciting, but a little disconcerting too.

 

[Todd]

Very interesting.

Now how come when I post these topics I get flamed?

 

[TN_Vixen]

Todd, how come?

when I post these topics I get 2 worded reponses?

 

[Todd]

I want to answer more to you about the biometric scanning at banks and ATM machines, and the video surivealance cameras in stop lights and road lights, or the DNA scanning in crocery stores, but I did not want to expand your topic to far and help keep it focused where you intended it to be

 

[RudeNastyAssBitch]

TOTALLY SCARY!

On an average walk out of one's house, They will be caught on video about 20 to 30 times!

Don't forget to put that make-up on!LOL

They Are Watching
Beware!

RNAB

 

[Nobody Special]

Yes and No to your Question..

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[Chuckus]

You know, I think of how far technology has come in the last ten years, let alone the past 40 or so, and it is mind boggling. Used to be no computers, now we have screaming demon computers with all kinds of gadgets. Cell phones, heck I remember when a mere cell phone cost over $500 and a minute cost some astronomical amount. Yes it is amazing and Yes it is a little dis combobulating and a little weird feeling.

 

[fgarvb1]

it's part of the master plan!

of coarse........sniff!!

 

[Samuari]

My dad died two years ago, and one of his observations was that he had seen man go for Kitty Hawk to the Sea of Tranquility. The world changes rapidly, but less in a stright line and more of a drunken stagger. One thing that I think that it is safe to bet on though, is that the pace of change is accelerating. It is the unpredictability when coupled with the speed that the changes occure at, that makes life interesting.

 

[Max]

Yes, to think that there are people still living today that were born during the horse and buggy days; no electricity, no indoor plumbing, no phones, very few cars, certainly no TV..

They were witnesses to the advent of all the technological advances of the 20th century.. Can you imagine how mind boggling it is to these very senior citizens, if they are still cognizant and aware, and I hope they are..