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====Did you know that you look at your phone at least ten times every hour? As a society, the world has become[| dependent on the use of technology]. The use of social networking sights are used so people can have “friends,” they use of Google to look things up that can be found in books, and high school students, or really any person, uses their phones all the time. Although, the ability to use technology in this way can be a great thing, it can also be used in a hurtful way. This idea is illustrated in 1984, by George Orwell, and Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow. Little Brother is about a society over ruled by technology and government. It’s the story of teens living in that society, who try to find ways to regain the freedoms that they lost due to the governmental over rule. This is much like 1984, which is about a society that’s completely controlled by government. The characters in this book attempted to rebel against an overly controlling government that restricts all information and technology to the normal population. The government can use it, but truly no one else can.‍‍‍ In both these books there is a common theme; that technology can help and hinder society. At this moment in time, technology is starting to hinder society in the fact that the government is begining to sensor the internet. In a sense there is a lot learned a lot from reading these two books, but there is still much that the world has yet to learn about technology. The true question is; where does the world go from here? ‍====

====From 1984 and Little Brother there are a lot of things ‍that have been learned. ‍In Little Brother the society is in turmoil. [|The government had taken over and technology was in control]. From reading about these types of technologies, there is much that is used in the daily life in the current time. As Cory Doctorow said, “if it's not in my email archive, I don't know it.” This means that if the information he should remember isn’t online he wouldn’t be able to remember it. People useing the internet as an artificial memory gives the government an easy way to look into the lives of their citizens. Another example of this is how the government can use [|satellites], helicopters, and other military installations to track terrorists, but those satellites can also be used to watch normal everyday citizens. This type of spying can be found in the book 1984, “In the far distance a helicopter skimmed down between the roofs, hovered for an instant like a bluebottle, and darted away again with a curving flight. It was the police patrol, snooping into people's windows.” Looking into people’s lives can also be found common in department stores and libraries in the 21st century in America. The stores can put aphids in their books and cloths, to keep people from stealing them. A down side to aphids is that if someone is to forget to take them out of the product, the aphids can give information to the place where you bought the cloths about where you have been. These technologies are also found commonly in the book 1984. Although the government in 1984 is more communist and not quite as free willed, it still has very advanced technology. The government in this book uses televisions and satellites to spy on their citizens. In fact, there are stories of the government or “higher powers” using technology like this to look into the homes of students to see if they are studying. The fact that technology can be used to look into our daily lives in even the most private moment is a scary thought‍‍‍.====

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====With the use of these two books we have learned much about technology, but there are many things we have yet to learn. IBM has created a super computer that is incredibly smart,“Watson performs so fast that it can rival the greatest human contestants in understanding Jeopardy!” The scary thing is that Watson is smarter than any human being and, if under the right circumstances, the computer could turn into a mass weapon against society. Although America isn’t quite as controlling as other countries there could be a possibility that they would use this kind of technology against their citizens. If this is possible there is no way to know if the government would use technology against us. The United States government believes in the freedom of its people and the ability to know your charges. If our government decided to use technology to spy on us, which would be a violation of the rights put in place by our founding fathers. Tomas Jefferson once said, “All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.” The United States had a democratic government and tyranny is not tolerated. Thus the freedom of speech, may it be online or offline must not be compromised. The type of technology that is possible in the future had the possibility of restricting freedom of speech and many other freedoms. This would leave the United States, and the world, in complete governmental control, which is not exactly the best idea.====

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The real question is; where does technology go from here? As a society, America changes every few years, this including technology. As the years have gone by, technology has changed quite a bit. [|Apple]technology came into view a while ago and, according to CNET news, ‍‍‍“When Apple Computer was founded in 1976, its flagship product was the clunky Apple I, Gerald Ford was in the White House, and Steven Spielberg was one of the hottest directors in Hollywood. Thirty years later, the tiny Apple iPod is a pop-culture phenomenon, and George W. Bush is president. Spielberg, of course, is still cranking out.” ‍‍‍This just shows how much things can change over a little while. Even now Apple technology has had three different types of iPhones out in just the past two years. If technology can change and become better that quickly; imagine what could happen in 30 years from now! The world could turn into a technology reliant society, leaving the citizens even more easily controlled by the government. Aphids could become much more common in human usage; mothers could put them in their children to keep tabs on them whenever they feel necessary. The world is very close to coming out with this type of technology. A prediction that future for all had is that there will be, “Designer babies / designer bodies” in our future. Where the person can control the way they want to look. At the same time there could be a situation where the government could use it to control the way that they want the world to look like and make us all the same. The future of technology is wonderful and scary at the same time.

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====Although technology is helpful in the everyday life, the world’s future is at stake if the government takes it too far. There is much to learn from in the books 1984 and Little Brother, and also much left unknown, but truly the people need to think about where to go from this point. The government is starting to head down a road to complete controll and sensorship of the lives of their citizens. As a domocratic nation, the United States needs to stop this before it starts. This isn't just directed twards goverment officials and adults. Teenagers; turn your cell phones off for at least two hours a day, whether it is while doing homework or‍‍‍ watching your favorite television show. Just turn it off, it will let you be more entertained and keep the posiblity of the goverment tracking you to a minimum. There is a need to reduce the statistic of ten times every hour. If there is a possibility that the amount we look at our cell phones can be reuced to at least five times an hour, the nation and the citizens within it will be much safer. ‍‍====

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==== "Future Technology Predictions | High Tech Future Technologies and Scenarios." //Future Technology and Society | NBIC | Future Technology Predictions//. Future For All, 2010. Web. 13 Feb. 2012. . ====