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As the race for complete control of media consumption begins
the fight for privacy begins to look unwinnable. Smartphones now catalogue so
much about their owner’s lives that they know more about the person and their
habits then that person’s friends or family. The pros of having a device that
offers almost anything you want within seconds seems outweighs any cons of
having your information processed and given to people who just want your money.
The world is no longer private and hasn’t been since the technology revolution.
Children born into this age will not care about their privacy and won’t have
the same worries that their parents did that someone somewhere is always
watching and logging all of their activities. Was the ideology that people
should have private lives ever necessary for human life to continue “normally”?
Should we as people ask ourselves if privacy would matter to us if we had never
known what privacy was? Is this the world that we want all future generations
to know? There are still some positives with personal information being
available to everyone. As the article said companies already know your
preferences so buying nearly anything becomes quick and painless. Matches for
potential employment could be found based on preferences and past tendencies/experience
without actually looking and then “resumes,” submitted at the click of a
button. The employers could also see your past experience and easily find the
best people to be possibly hired at their company. This automation seems scary
to current generations, but this automation will be normal in the future. The
time freed by computers doing all of the mindless tasks will be enormous. Of
course what happens if the systems fails? Someone who actually understands the
system has power over the normal people to an incredible degree. Warfare
between the people who understand the system will take place above any normal
everyday life, this is already happening of course but as computers control
everything the entire control scheme becomes exaggerated. When will the consequences
of an automated world surpass the luxury of having everyday life automated?
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