Re: New processor chips for mobile phones

°cg° wrote:
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 06:32:02 GMT, TAldrich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx't aclue
wrote:


On 14-Jun-2009, °cg° <cgrams7@{removethis}yahoo.com> wrote:

Everyone will carry around their own virtual realities able to play
SIMS 74 or the latest shoot 'em up game at will. Teenagers will be
generating thousands of text messages every day. Parents will
always be able to know exactly what their children are doing and
where they are. Sexual encounters will become far more promiscuous
than now unless you don't consider virtual sex to be sex. Law
enforcement will be obtaining court orders for a whole new sort of
wire taps and lawyers will have an entirely new set of legal cases
to earn their wages.

It will be a brave new world.

When you read 1984 and other SciFi of the past, the "Brave New
World" is a scary place, well thats not true. For all intents and
purposes it will be a happy place being the people themselves have
bought into it. I tried to say this years ago in other newsgroups
and was killfiled as being a wierdo. You really take into account
that the vast majority of people are not political animals persay
revolutionarys or what ever, and a vast ammont of people are hinged
by their material well being and care more about non-reality such as
gossip, it really is quite simple to implement a "Brave New World"
and it does not have a scary place.
While trying to buy a new car, salesmen cannot understand why I
don't want "Onstar" or any other such device in my new car and the
first thing that is going to happen to any such device is it's going
to be taken out of my car.

It was a scary place - to me! I read it 40 years ago. It might be
interesting to compare its world to the world when it was written
(1931), when I read it (1966) and today.

I have a cell phone which works very nicely. I've no need for
"Onstar" or any of the "Brave New World" features it might include.

My cell phone does have a GPS function which is supposed to be turned
on only when dialing "911". Not that I believe I'm allowed to really
shut it off. If you believe that then you probably also believe that
Caller ID's can be blocked from being sent to the called phone.

OTOH, I had occasion to call "911" not so long ago. It took the cops
a very long time to respond to a crime in progress. They couldn't
find the address despite having access to the GPS data and an accurate
address to boot. So, even though they had the information it seems
human intelligence, or lack of human intelligence, can influence it
usefulness. :-)

Most likely they cannot afford the infrastructure required to make use of
the GPS info.


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