Tethered vs Untethered Technology

Here’s a very interesting article about the future of the internet and computers, which predicts a dystopian world where all teh gadgets you cary like your cell phone and iPod may one day spy on you and record everything you say an do.

I don’t think that will be the end result of these technologies, but certainly there will be those who will try to make it happen. The nature of humanity, however, is someone will find a better way to any problem and hackers will always subvert security systems. At some points, I think it will be a more egalitarian world due to emerging technologies. Playing fields are being leveled in many strange and interesting ways that many people have yet to realize. While the corporations try to control how content is distributed, the people are telling them how it’s going to be distributed.

Authorities operate on the illusion that they rule the public, when the truth is, the public lets them rule based on inertia. But when the public decides they want something all the laws and police won’t stop people from getting it. Look at the failed drug war as an example. Billions of dollars wasted, millions in prison yet drugs are going strong and are more pure than ever, and relatively inexpensive. .

The internet is an evolving thing, and while they try to pass laws governing what can be said or done there, people will continue to find ways around it. Indeed, the internet itself may be replaced by something much more powerful and this may make it even harder for them to regulate.

The battle is on and I side with the untethered crowd. 

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