A Curse or a Blessing?
Last night I watched the movie Eagle Eye for the first time and well it made me a bit uneasy about how advanced technology has become. The movie is about a top secret government run program, called Eagle Eye, that has control over all aspects of the technological world in the entire nation. This program is able to tap into anything from cell phones to stop lights video cameras. It can even track objects by vibrations. This is a bit unnerving to me because it is the whole idea that big brother is watching. Something or someone that is constantly watching and recording your every move and who knows your most intimate moments. There is nowhere to hide!
The expanse of technology these days is continuously growing and there looks to be no end on the horizon. Its like what Henry Jenkins explained in his Convergence Culture article, he went to buy a simple “single-function phone” to make calls with and no mobile company carries them. Just a few short years ago it was a luxury to even have a single-function phone and yet in today’s culture everyone is in search of the latest and greatest products the markets have to offer. Everyday new advancements are evolving and everyday these advancements get that much closer to being able to control itself. It is scary to think that one day there could be a program out there, in which we had a hand in creating, that may possibly be a threat to our nations security and innocent people’s lives.
By all means I am not saying that all technology is bad. There are many developments that are helping in our health fields to fight fatal diseases and ultimately save lives. There seems to be no right way to handle this every growing process of technological evolution. Its a blessing for now, but could possibly become a curse.
