Do you have an ipod, a laptop, an mp3 player, an Iphone, mobile phone? 10 years ago, personal gadgets and portable devices were scarce and expensive. Since the late 90s the world has changed, and the fast growing economies of the west have been involved in a technology boom.
For example, ask yourself this question. Do you know anyone who doesn't have a mobile phone? I can't think of anyone, but that depends on where you live. I haven't had the opportunity to travel to Asia and Africa, but I know, these markets are developing fast and are becoming affordable even to very low income earners.
I find that I can't leave home without it. It has become such a social phenomenon that its almost part of you. People fear to go out without their mobile phones. Its crazy!
What about laptops? Only in the last few years have we really started to convert from desktop to portable, but the prices are falling fast. The IT industry is changing so fast that we can fit millions of songs and pictures on a card thats less than 2 inches in diameter. Scientists only dreamed of this back in the 80s, when computers were the size of factories!
However, gadgets are beginning to control us? Is this some kind of international experiment? Only joking. Or am I? Everywhere we go, we have to be connected. I fear these wifi hotspots, that encourage us to take laptops outside. Soon we wont be able to leave our homes without having some form of electronic device attached to us. Are we being controlled?
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