Google CEO, Eric Schmidt shares very valuable information at a recent Bloomberg summit in October of this year (2008). Here is an interesting viewpoint:
If the camera phone allows you to be a Paparatzi, blogs allow you to be a reporter, and youtube turns you into a film maker, WHAT HAPPENS TO PRIVACY?
Saturday, November 8, 2008
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"scarcity builds clarity" -- In the midst of our globalized community, efforts are made to progress time and time again. So, as Schmidt elucidates, that scarcity builds clarity, does the degradation of our environment build a clear vision for change? Will the scarce availability of water provide for a greater technological development that will become engraved within our social responsibility to change?
ReplyDeleteMoving away from social and cultural evolution; although Schmidt, expands on the future of our unrestricted possibilities, he doesn't seem to identify the increasing restrictions and watch dogs that are evidently profiling every socially mobile or tech. user? So much so, that our very ability to publish, post, watch, and browse is documented in such a way that privacy and security of a person slowly becomes dissolved in the midst of the limitless cyber world. We are always growing greater and better, always trying to beat the norm, to come up with the latest gadget in order to enhance our mind capability. Encapsulated in our time and space, we are expanding through transnational borders, through borderless possibilities that allow for means of communication that was never deemed possible. Yet, is it as simple as it seems? What are the reprecussions of such actions? Will we face consequences that will alter our human persona so much that we are expanding our communication on one level, while slowly curtailing our face to face relations?