The Video Epidemic
2008-12-18 21:05:36

There is something sinister crossing the land. It is a strange and wild thing affecting everyone with a face.

It is the web video. The idea that people are truly interested in putting their face to pixels. The idea that somehow their face will show up better when it is disembodied from their bodies and infinitely reproducible across the entire Internet.

I mean, do they even know who might be watching them? NO! They have no clue! For all I know, any number of people might have watched the guy below -- even my 87 year old Yiddish grandmother. But you know what? I think this guy loves doing this. I think he likes having his face disembodied from his body and thrown who-knows-where. It's the new openess of the Internet, isn't it? Spreading an image around like it is the 60's! Free love! Free video! Free advertising!

Is it the digital era that promotes this? Why does it promote this? Why are people allowed to put their faces all over the place? First Facebook, and now THIS!

Cell Phones - A Long Set of Questions
2008-12-13 01:26:00

As humans, sometimes we can transport ourselves into little metal objects. Our essence and voice is transferred across space, and we take on the avatar of a cell phone. On the other end, our friend is talking with an avatar of ourselves in this tiny box. In the future, cell phones may be implanted in people’s skulls. Mind control over simple electronics has been established recently in science. With a little more development, the relation between humans and technology will began to blur more. We already have electronic implants to monitor heartbeat, and to help with health problems.

There is a new field of study concerning human-machine interactions. It is called cyborg anthropology. If humans had cell phones implanted into their skulls, they could have instant access to other’s sounds. With more development, thoughts could be transferred. Would this mean a collective consciousness?

The speed of transfer of information could increase as time progressed, so the transference of thoughts would reach a speed in which everyone could be completely and fully linked. There would be no lies, and everyone would completely understand the other. Would this create world peace? Would a collective consciousness such as this be good for society? Would it help the world in any way? What would the world look like under collective consciousness? Would there we hippies outside this consciousness’ that refuse to have this technology implanted into their heads, or would it be required by every individual at birth, or they wouldn’t get a birth certificate, social security number, ect.

Would this be a means of control, in which anyone going into any store would be tracked by what his chip emanated to a receiver? Could the coverage of these receivers allow everyone on earth’s position at any time known at all times? Under a collective consciousness, would a terrorist’s motives would be able to be known at all times? Or would they find out increasingly excellent ways to evade it? Would a terrorist’s thoughts be known to others? Would people then care for others? Care for society? What would happen? Would people try to make the world better?