Ispy with my little eye...ch 4, 5 and 6

After reviewing chapters 4, 5 and 6 our group realized that our discussion seemed to be a little repetitive and seemed to reiterate the same ideas. A lot of the simple ideas were over elaborated and that things were more complicated from the language that was used.

Andrejevic talks about how things will be developed to help us further in everyday life such as Smart wear clothing which can detect your vitals and can make you smell nice and other things like that but he goes further and assumes things will pretty much be consumed by technology. That technology will even be used to remind a doctor of medical procedures at the operating table."(122) This is getting a little extreme. Doctors will no longer have malpractice insurance because they will be blaming the computer for telling them the wrong procedure. It will make us as people worse. In the article that we read earlier, about the technology of pencils and writing, he brings the example of Plato foreseeing that our memory would weaken because of writing which is true but it further expands to this example and that people will be less intelligent and would not be able to problem solve on their own because they will have technology to figure everything out for them.

The problem with the development of technology is that for every new thing invented there needs to be 5 safeguards for it. For the key less starters for a car, how to they know that a child isn't entering the car or what if you are loaning a friend your car but if it is matched to a fingerprint how can your friend borrow your car. If your phone is used as your credit card, but you want to let your child borrow your phone how to you make sure they do not charge a $10000 shopping spree.

War on terrorism is the first Internet war, you can access it from your desk. People are asked to participate and be ready. After 9/11 the department of homeland security tried to transfer responsibility to the citizens of the United States through a "Be Prepared" campaign that allowed citizens to feel more responsible and more secure because part of it is through their own hands. Andrejevics sees a parallel between the marketing for interactivity and the marketing for readiness. Profiling and datamining can be used as surveillance in the name of national defense.

When we participate interpassively, everything we do is stored in a database and when we interactively participate people take responsibility for their own safety.