Juergen Specht wrote:
> On Slashdot is a discussion about I-Mode versus Wap.
>
> and here are the comments from Slashdotters:
> http://slashdot.org/articles/00/09/22/1157203.shtml
...and what a discussion! Here's my favorite reply:
# Mobile phones == hive mind (Score:4, Interesting)
# by flatpack on 16:10 22 September 2000 EET (#12)
#
# The rise of the mobile phone has given momentum to the idea
# that people can be permanently connected via a web of
# communication, day or night, 365 days a year. And now with
# services like WAP/iMode, they can not only be connected with
# each other, they can be connected with the vast amount of data
# found online.
#
# Does anyone else see the dangerous parallels between this and
# the actions of a hive mind? People are becoming less autonomous,
# more used to communicating their plans and ideas with others and
# receiving feedback before acting. Rather than allowing us to share
# information, mobile phones are acting as mechanisms which dampen
# individual creativity and instead encourage people to conform to
# the hive.
#
# And with the advent of WAP/iMode, this trend is only getting worse.
# Why think for yourself when a premade answer is only a few button
# presses away? Sooner or later people will learn to stop thinking at
# all, for they will be connected to a grid in which everybody else
# can do their thinking for them. And rather than the wonderful
# quantities which make us unique, we'll all be drones, revelling in
# our powers of "communication".
#
# No thanks, leave me out of this "revolution" in communication.
Hmm. I think I'll have check my i-mode phone to see what everybody
else thinks before forming an opinion on this one... =P
Cheers,
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Jani PATOKALLIO / jpatokal@iki.fi / +81 90 7722 3557
Sanpo Laboratory, Mechano-Informatics Dept., University of Tokyo
ヤニ・パトカリオ / jani@sanpo.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp / 090 7722 3557
東京大学、工学系研究科、機械情報工学科、算法設計研究室
Received on Mon Sep 25 07:00:15 2000