Re: [Air-L] [CITASA] the cell-less future
Good evening! I think the reason that Demolition Man shows the abundance of public phones on poles and the concomittant absence of mobile phones is that it is a panopticon society where the location of individuals can be fully tracked so that picking up nearby phone is enough to connect others. I also agree cell-phone can be obsolete if we see 'calling function' only. People here use cell-phone for watching TV (DMB;Digital Mobile Broadcasting), Internet banking, stock trading, GPS navigation in a car (or when they ride a bike) and as a credit card (with help of SIM card function), MP3 player and so on. It is becoming a mobile computer (indeed, it is with CPU and memory and network module) with more or less calling function priority. Best -- Ho Young Yoon Researcher Institute of Social Development Yonsei University, South Korea On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 7:40 AM, Joan I. Biddle <jbiddle2@verizon.net>wrote:
Greetings!
Cell phones may become obsolete, yet the successor to the cell phone, the iPhone/Droid/Blackberry all purpose mobile access to the internet and endless apps, is, in my opinion, here to stay. And, I think that it’s going to be only a very short time until an ordinary, single purpose “phone”, whether a land line, or something that requires no visible means of connection, becomes the norm for each person. We will get a cell phone number, much the same that we get a social security number, or a driver’s license number—and that number will belong to a person for life. A kind of permanent GPS for each person. Instant contact....
I have a Droid. I was amazed, from the very first at how easy it is to be drawn into the possibilities, especially the ability to seek and find information, any time, any place.
I would be curious to hear from others about their aha! Moments with their “phones”, and electronic devices.
I’m also increasingly surprised at the amount of mundane information that people are posting to Facebook—almost a minute by minute account for a person’s daily life. So, is the ability to tell the world what you do an addiction of sorts, or what exactly is it when “we” spend time focused on our technology and technological tools, for increasingly more time each day, for all aspects of our life and actions.
Plus, who’s out there realistically looking at these things.
I’m not entirely sure what question, if a question, I’d like to pose. I’m still thinking about the infinite range of what I seem to think I’m seeing.
Joan Biddle
On 7/16/10 6:19 PM, "Earl Babbie" <ebabbie@mac.com> wrote:
Who knows, Barry. Maybe cell phones are a passing fad, though they don't know that here in Shanghai. Coming in from the airport, in fact, out driver was pulled over for using his while driving, and we had to change to another cab in the middle of a busy traffic circle.
Earl
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On Jul 16, 2010, at 1704, Barry Wellman wrote:
Demolition Man ran last nite, with Stallone, Snipes and Bullock.
But what got my attention was the abundance of public phones on poles and the concomittant absence of mobile phones. In what is supposed to be 2032.
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As a civilization, we often have a difficult time visualizing the miniaturization and transfer of tools from central places to the individual. One day, we will all be generating power, managing transmissions and communication, creating materials and prints, capturing and processing our own sounds and images, and running supercomputers - without leaving our personal space. Other changes will depend on larger changes in how we conceive of society -- whether we will also all be maintaining our own information policies, enforcing social and legal standards, overseeing built infrastructure and initiating repairs, serving in notary and encryption capacities, serving as independent financial bodies, and providing physical security... all in our personal vicinity. SJ
I love this vision, and I hope you're right, but wireless transmissions have been foreseen, if you will - didn't Dick Tracy have wrist phones in the 1930s? rs ________________________________________________________________ Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage. - H.L. Mencken ________________________________________ From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Samuel Klein [meta.sj@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 10:17 AM To: Ho Young Yoon Cc: Barry Wellman; Earl Babbie; Joan I. Biddle; aoir list; section asa Subject: Re: [Air-L] [CITASA] the cell-less future As a civilization, we often have a difficult time visualizing the miniaturization and transfer of tools from central places to the individual. One day, we will all be generating power, managing transmissions and communication, creating materials and prints, capturing and processing our own sounds and images, and running supercomputers - without leaving our personal space. Other changes will depend on larger changes in how we conceive of society -- whether we will also all be maintaining our own information policies, enforcing social and legal standards, overseeing built infrastructure and initiating repairs, serving in notary and encryption capacities, serving as independent financial bodies, and providing physical security... all in our personal vicinity. SJ _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
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