Only a few thousand people who remember...

There are only a few thousand people still alive who can remember what it was like to attempt to get road side assistance on a highway without a mobile communication device.   The technologies sold to us for convenience, it is said, are also a method by which privacy is reduced and also the means by which populations are or can be controlled.  Social networking is a technological phenomena that increases this relinquishing of privacy in all of our affairs and every aspect of your lives.  There are anthropological benefits for technology companies and other commercial entities that design consumer household products as they have a great deal of new information to explain how people behave and interact in private; absolute privacy.  But, this loss in privacy as demanded by these technologies that render young and old individuals misfits or technologically dead if the technologies are not used should allow the consumer to demand a bottom line in basic human rights and freedoms.  Stop and search is soo stupid since an officer just has to loose his job for a needless bill of rights breach.  The officer knows what his sixth sense is telling him but what if he feels nothing more than a mobile device that is set   one minute earlier than GMT time) or a swastika tattoo?     The day may come when the court will be able to play back the domestic infidelity  in the kitchen one morning before you took off to cheat on your husband at work.  Your cheating companion said it was not what he expected when you put his utensils in your hands. In demanding these basic and bottom line human rights, we obtain a social and economic functioning that will enable individuals to use to enjoy life via legislation that is respected and safeguarded as quiet widgets in a well programmed technological social gadget.  It is to think of societies and cities as gadgets.  We would run from a mobile phone that does not work according to its program, operating system, product outline and specification.   We would run from a society that does not work according to its program, its legislation, operating system, product outline and specification.  Mobile phones tend to work and sometimes you get 2 for 1. So, why is it that society does not work more often than not and if it does not, isn't there redress through the law? Everybody knows the right answer. You shouldn't shoot a young Pakistani grad student in a M. Phil lecture hall and then excuse it by saying "threatening".  He was just reading the syllabus and it's on video.  It's recorded.    But, you will pay compensation and tell him to appeal his injuries.  That sounds  like a product in need of refurbishment and a new quality control manager.  This dilution of privacy as we know it does not mean that the theory and practice of democracy is lost in a filleting of the concept "moral majority" or lost in a equation  that uses this loss in privacy as function and variable in some peccant and wicked will to power.