Say “cheese”
May 10, 2010 (Monday)
A person with a new cell phone today can call you and show you what the phone is seeing. You can capture the picture and immediately print it if you have a printer handy.
Video cameras are almost everywhere these days, at traffic intersections, inside department stores, on busy streets and in most public places. So, now you have another reason to keep smiling.
Whoever thought that little box camera our parents used to take our pictures when we were little kids more than 70 years ago, would turn out to become what it is today. No longer a little box of film, it is now a radio transmitting its images wherever its owner directs.
Every time you go to the store these days, your movements are being photographed and monitored. In some stores, there are cameras even in the rest rooms.
Orwell’s “1984” predicted these days. He may have missed it by a few years, but some of his ideas have become reality. “Big Brother is watching you,” was the situation feared by many in the past. Well, somebody is watching today, that’s for sure.
I do not consider myself knowledgeable enough to make a judgment about how all this threatens our freedoms, but it makes me uneasy.
Meanwhile, smile when you say that, podnuh. Say what? Say, “Cheese!”
