Posted on 04/22/2011 2:25:38 PM PDT by decimon
Brookville, N.Y. – A Ugandan farmer transfers cash while standing in his field. An American teen "checks in" at a smoothie cafe, alerting his social network. An Icelandic fisherman "asks" the market what to fish for, locates the shoal, and plots his course against a predicted tide before heading out to sea. At any given moment, people from all walks of life are using mobile technology to beam up information and pull down influence.
What do these exchanges have in common? Each reflects a radical shift in how we relate to the world around us.
This shift is made possible by technological leaps – in phones, satellites, and chips – that are doing more than making our access to information faster and our influence more pervasive. They are essentially dematerializing all forms of capital into cloud-based commodities. It sounds so futuristic, but the reality is feudal: Our money, our friends, our whereabouts, even our thoughts and desires, are being siphoned into corporate servers, turning us into digital serfs.
"Rule the air," touts one wireless carrier, but this tag line is terribly elusive. Virtual castles in the sky – built on the brick and mortar of user-generated content – stand protected behind a moat of tethering data plans and Wi-Fi roaming fees.
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The danger of us and our business becoming a commodity is real. However the reality is that the small time success maks fo big time one. Paranoia against son or father and authority of genuine sort is for the drunks and is the language of liberalia jealous communist homosexual whoredom.
I’m afraid to reply after reading that.
What an idiot. Being able to communicate and do businesses from places not approved by government is serfdom??
Plagiarizing government and Zero are a mortal danger. Surveillance bases must be curtailed. Followers without faith are death and mechanical dead reckon cheaters, blind. Life is too “serious” for them... and pleasure is their pain.
Thought provoking article. But I disagree with the premise. IMHO, mobile communication empowers the individual rather than turning us into “serfs”.
I read somewhere how using digital media to organize events made spying on them so much easier in the Middle East - you don’t need 1000 spies in a city going to every meeting gaining their trust, just 10 guys reading all the forums and Twitter feeds.
Is that
“Allyour base are belong to us”?
If only Marshall McLuhan were alive . . . . .
Hard to type on acid?
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