Is it Big Brother?

I have a GPS and yes, it will tell you where you are, it will not however tell others where you are. It is just a piece of electronics that gives you directions to where you are going, and no offense, but it scares me to watch people drive downt the street reading a map or piece of paper...that is not very safe, however people dont seem to mind almost getting ran off the road when some one is reading directions, but gets mad when someone is texting or talking on the phone...same concept, your attention is not on the road. with a gps though, it talks to you so you can keep your eyes on the road and still get to where you are going.

I know he is doing the writing, I do not allow myself to become distracted by what is going on in the world, it will go as it goes and I have enough on my plate to deal with what I must to learn and to grow. A good hit by an asterold will cure all of the problems brought by man to mother earth.

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Hi Joanne, It makes me wonder how many people have ever heard of Big Brother other than the TV show. For that matter, I wonder how many people have ever heard of George Orwell!! How do you like the cameras they have placed on top of the stop lights? The ones that are blue at night? Have you seen them? All these things are suppose to make us feel safer. "The Land of The Free".

Couldn't agree with you more, Big Brother is turning into NWO and at the end of the day privacy is going to be something of the past....it's all about Problem/Solution the more us humans complain about the state of the world, the more Solutions are put in place by big brother to keep us SAFE (well that's what they tell us) it's really to keep us controlled like a dictatorship

While satellites show your location, that location does not get transmitted to anyone else. And even if it did, it would be impossible to know who each person was behind each GPS, so I doubt this is a problem.

Like any technology, the GPS can be misused. It most certainly can be used by the government to keep a tab on its 'subjects'. George Orwell had predicted the use of CCTV in his novel when CCTV(as we know them today) were not widely used. The GPS can be a CCTV for the whole world . Well, as always, we citizens are left with no choice but to strngthen our civil bodies and democratic institutions in order to safegaurd our rights.

The scary thing is that GPS devices aren't just in GPS devices. Some phones have them. If your cell phone, you dial 911 during an accident and you can't talk, that comes in handy. But what if that information gets into the wrong hands? Many times abused and domestic violence victims are given a cell phone only to find out their safe house isn't safe. Many times abusers can find the GPS coordinants by using their cell phone. So now, they're told to dump their cell phones and get a "clean" cell phone, one the abuser can't track. So a GPS is a double-edged sword.

Perhaps. GPS, the Internet, WiFi, and the like, have their advantages. Technology is a wonderful thing. But I too know that there are those, who would definitely abuse its greatness to the dis-advantage of others. CONTROL, has for centuries been a passion, most difficult to resist. cdrxo

Joanne, I skimmed this discussion and posted a comment. Then I read that you and all the teachers you know require Orwell to be read. Well, I must tell you that your corner of the world is an anomaly. I've talked Orwell coast to coast to college students and most don't know Orwell from Adam. Honest. Keep up the good work! Orwell is still in-print and causing difficulties for those who want to perfect their tyrannies. Steve

There is a good and bad side of every new things. Like we got a chace to bring camera with mobile and shoot whatever and whenever but the bad side was that dirty mms's are coming into the act. So, it is up to us that how we use new technologies.

I will freely admit that I have not been paying attention to all the Big Brother stuff- and to be honest with you I'm not sure there is anything we can do about it. At this point all we can do is life our lives and hope for the best. I will admit that when the government started asking book stores for credit card info on customers I was glad I didn't have one. I buy books on many topics and at least 2 of those topics could potentially be a problem. SO even if I had a credit card I would not have purchased books with it. But the fact is that my library records would show at least one topic. I'm not overly worried about camera's since I have done nothing to be worried about- nor am I overly worried about computer searches for the same reason. is there anything we can do? And Cobra you may be using Orwell in classes but I never had a teacher who did.... I am familiar with 1984 though.

I think '1984' should be required reading for liberals. ;)

Yes, I feel that way too, and also with facebook, myspace, is like if all the information of all the people of the entire world is there in the internet, you only have to search for it. I even heard an amazing new, that the NASA was experimented with technology to read the mind of the other, and that way they could know what are the next movements of the enemy, that is, to use it at wars, mainly. It sound to me as an extraterrial thing, I never though something like that it would be possible, but it´s clear to me that real life is even more stranger than fiction

very good analogy!

not get too excited about it