Technopanics and Other Unfounded Fears

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Re: Technopanics and Other Unfounded Fears

Postby Anonymizer » Sat Jan 15, 2011 8:55 am

Techno Panics From Forty Years Ago
Interesting documentary series based on Future Shock. (Some of us are old enough to remember the book! ;) ) The first installment of the series is embedded below. You can go to the video on Youtube or the link provided for more! It's interesting how people's reaction to emerging technology remains the same over the years, but most of the fears are completely unfounded. To say that the presentation style of the documentary is melodramatic would be an extreme understatement! :eek2:
In 1972, a little-known documentary was made, based on Alvin Toffler's famous and massively influential techno-panic book Future Shock, which famously warned about the dangers of technological progress. Apparently, the entire documentary has been put up on YouTube, so you can watch it below. It's narrated by Orson Welles, but what's most amusing is how many of the concerns voiced in the documentary about the evils of technology are the same "warnings" that we hear today, with the same absence of evidence that support the position. I particularly like the dramatic scary music that fills much of the entire film.

LINK: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110113/14494112661/techno-panics-forty-years-ago-narrated-orson-welles.shtml
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Re: Technopanics and Other Unfounded Fears

Postby Anonymizer » Sat Jan 15, 2011 9:12 am

Feeding the homeless? Better have a permit
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Re: Technopanics and Other Unfounded Fears

Postby Anonymizer » Sat Jan 15, 2011 9:23 am

Here's a surprise. Every time you snap a picture on your cellphone it records a GPS location within 15 feet that anyone viewing the photograph on facebook or other social networking sites can use to find you.
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/video?id=7621105
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Re: Technopanics and Other Unfounded Fears

Postby Anonymizer » Sat Jan 15, 2011 9:45 am

I watched some of that Future Shock documentary and the music is so annoying that I just stopped! Seriously, even in the early seventies that music would have sucked!
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Re: Technopanics and Other Unfounded Fears

Postby Anonymizer » Sat Jan 15, 2011 9:48 am

surfsteve wrote:Here's a surprise. Every time you snap a picture on your cellphone it records a GPS location within 15 feet that anyone viewing the photograph on facebook or other social networking sites can use to find you.
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/video?id=7621105

An easy fix is to open the image on your computer and then use the Windows snipping tool to capture the image to another file. (Macs have a similar app by a different name.) That will eliminate the GPS info from the image. You might also use photo editing software to resize and reformat the image. GPS info is not a bad thing to share in many cases, however, since it provides information to other people. On the other hand, if you took pictures of some petroglyphs and you didn't want their location shared with the general public (some who might vandalize the rock art) then GPS info would be a bad thing.
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Re: Technopanics and Other Unfounded Fears

Postby Anonymizer » Sat Jan 15, 2011 9:51 am

Those future shock movies are promoted by Hollywood. I think that they want you to think it's all ridiculous so you will go on giving them your last dollar to buy the latest gizmo that allows you to be tracked and manipulated.
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Re: Technopanics and Other Unfounded Fears

Postby Anonymizer » Sat Jan 15, 2011 9:59 am

desertrat wrote:
surfsteve wrote:Here's a surprise. Every time you snap a picture on your cellphone it records a GPS location within 15 feet that anyone viewing the photograph on facebook or other social networking sites can use to find you.
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/video?id=7621105

An easy fix is to open the image on your computer and then use the Windows snipping tool to capture the image to another file. (Macs have a similar app by a different name.) That will eliminate the GPS info from the image. You might also use photo editing software to resize and reformat the image. GPS info is not a bad thing to share in many cases, however, since it provides information to other people. On the other hand, if you took pictures of some petroglyphs and you didn't want their location shared with the general public (some who might vandalize the rock art) then GPS info would be a bad thing.


And that keeps the phone company from tracking me how? There is no easy fix. How many people are even aware when they post a phone picture that they can be tracked?
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Re: Technopanics and Other Unfounded Fears

Postby Anonymizer » Sat Jan 15, 2011 12:31 pm

surfsteve wrote:
desertrat wrote:
surfsteve wrote:Here's a surprise. Every time you snap a picture on your cellphone it records a GPS location within 15 feet that anyone viewing the photograph on facebook or other social networking sites can use to find you.
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/video?id=7621105

An easy fix is to open the image on your computer and then use the Windows snipping tool to capture the image to another file. (Macs have a similar app by a different name.) That will eliminate the GPS info from the image. You might also use photo editing software to resize and reformat the image. GPS info is not a bad thing to share in many cases, however, since it provides information to other people. On the other hand, if you took pictures of some petroglyphs and you didn't want their location shared with the general public (some who might vandalize the rock art) then GPS info would be a bad thing.


And that keeps the phone company from tracking me how? There is no easy fix. How many people are even aware when they post a phone picture that they can be tracked?

Maybe I misunderstood you, but even when I reread your original statement it seems that you are concerned about people on facebook (or other networking sites) finding you. You didn't state that you were worried about the phone company. The phone company can track you regardless of whether or not you snap pictures. Even when your phone is off they can track you. The only time they can't track you is when you pull the battery out.
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Re: Technopanics and Other Unfounded Fears

Postby Anonymizer » Sat Jan 15, 2011 3:16 pm

Maybe you can us you phone as a phone and not a camera.
If you need to take a video or pic there's a gal that wants to help you.

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It's Barbie doll vision! Create movies from Barbie doll's point-of-view with a real video camera inside Barbie doll (camera lens is in the necklace and video screen on back). Includes USB plug-in cord.

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hope this helps
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Re: Technopanics and Other Unfounded Fears

Postby Anonymizer » Sat Jan 15, 2011 6:36 pm

There was another technopanic over those Barbies with the built in cameras. In fact, the paranoid goon squad known as the FBI issued a warning that these camera-enabled dolls could be used by perverts to take improper pictures of little kids. Kind of far-fetched, but typical of the "you can never be too safe" idiots who work for law enforcement.
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Re: Technopanics and Other Unfounded Fears

Postby Anonymizer » Sun Jan 16, 2011 8:34 am

MRGREEN wrote:There was another technopanic over those Barbies with the built in cameras. In fact, the paranoid goon squad known as the FBI issued a warning that these camera-enabled dolls could be used by perverts to take improper pictures of little kids. Kind of far-fetched, but typical of the "you can never be too safe" idiots who work for law enforcement.
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It seems incredibly stupid, but the way these parents were asked about these toys got them to obsess over the dangers enough to be concerned about something as stupid as this. It goes to show you how impressionable people are. Frame a question in a certain way and preface it with a little paranoia-increasing misinformation and you can get people to go off the deep end on almost any topic. It's really pathetic that these people were so easily persuaded that such an incredibly non-dangerous toy could be realistically used to do something awful. What's even more amazing is that they have a complete disconnect with reality since there are cameras everywhere else and so a camera in a doll isn't really going to make any difference!
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Re: Technopanics and Other Unfounded Fears

Postby Anonymizer » Thu Jan 20, 2011 12:38 pm

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The internet makes us aware of coincidental events that occur around the world. Whereas these coincidences have always happened at about the same frequency, our awareness of these coincidences has increased greatly! It is common for people to see causation and meaningful correlation where there is only coincidence.
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