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The All-Seeing Eye Of The Government

For all the machismo and testosterone running wild on this site, I felt there was a need for a woman’s perspective on things. So without further adieu, here’s Drea...

With the ever so anticipated iPhone dropping today, all the hype got me thinking about technology's true impact on society.

Here I sit, behind one of my most appreciated pieces of technology, my laptop. If it wasn't for this thing, I'd probably be flunking out of college, and completely ignorant to the world. This one item allows me to get news, REAL news, not Fox News, about any and everything happening in the world. It allows me to express my thoughts, feelings, and beliefs to the public, which Meka is so graciously giving me an outlet for through his blog. It tells me if it's going to rain, it entertains me with music and games, hell, there's not much that it doesn't do.

But is it REALLY all that great?

No! Technology, and I do mean phones and other things besides computers seem to have made our society a much more dangerous and corrupt place. Essentially everything you do can be tracked. Every move you make, everything you download, everything you purchase, everybody you call, you name it. Around 1998 the FCC started to put a little thing called E911 into effect. By 2001 every cell phone sold in the US had to have the capability to be tracked, so that if you placed a 911 call from your cell they would be able to find your location quickly to come to your assistance. All of this is done by a wonderful little system called GPS. We've all heard of it, many of us probably have little GPS systems in our car, helping us tackle the maze of city streets.

GPS is a system of satellites constantly orbiting earth that use a quite simple system to locate a GPS unit on the earth's surface. Many people don't know however, that the GPS system is owned by the US Department of Defense, has been around for a couple decades now, and they spend thousands and thousands of dollars for it's upkeep every year. And we all know if it's not about the war, our government is stingy with the money, so why are they so interested in the GPS system? The government operates it at a different and more accurate frequency than the public has access to. They can see a penny lying on the sidewalk from the pictures our satellites are able to take. In that sense, you'd see that it's not that hard for the government to watch and see if your favorite rappers, weed carrier, bag holder or bling handler even jaywalks. The system was originally put into orbit for obvious military reasons.

Every one of our cell phones has the capability of being tracked, but how many of us stop to really think who might be doing the tracking?

Type in GPS tracking in Google, I dare you. You'll find a load of websites selling covert devices so you can spy on your cheating spouse or track your teenage kids. Wow, I feel so safe and secure.

Aside from GPS, 30 years ago, how much did you hear about child molesters? Granted, I wasn't alive 30 years ago, but I've been around long enough to notice the instances go on the rise. How do these people tend to find their victims? The glorious Internet, of course.

Microwaves, cell phones, video game systems...we've all heard that they cause health problems - cancer, carpel tunnel syndrome, eye problems, but yet when a new phone comes out or the PS3 drops, we're all lining up to buy one.

Sure technology gives us conveniences, but is it really doing us that much good? If anything it's distracting us from real issues. It entertains us while our soldiers are losing their lives in Iraq. It's taking away loot from your favorite music artist. It's bringing the dreaded illiterate voice of President Bush into my ears every night.

So rest assured that when the new iPhone drops, your local kiddie-banger will be enjoying his teenybopper porn on his new piece of glorious technology that he can take anywhere, some non-driving-capable girl driving an SUV in which she can barely see over the steering wheel to start with will crash into somebody because she was trying to use the damn thing while she was operating her vehicle, and a local drug dealer will get busted because he talked hot on the phone and didn't know it was tapped.

"Just put a rag on your face when you ride, you don't want them satellites to take your picture" - Dead Prez

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