Tech

Sometimes I wonder how it is that the world ever functioned without a home computer. Computer technologies have become so advanced so quickly that it is hard to believe that about 20 years ago, no one owned their own home computer and now many households have several of these already. I don't know much about the technology news, so I am always amazed when I hear about a new advancement and the most recent one that I discovered accidentally was Google Earth. I don't know if you have ever seen this thing, but quite frankly it is beyond amazing and a little bit scary. This shows the earth including every little detail that exists. You can actually go anywhere in the world with this online, not quite real time view. You can visit everywhere and anywhere including the Empire State Building and after seeing that you can go to the Eiffel Tower, it is just incredible how much you can see. I just keep thinking that if technology can allow the average person to see this much of the world, then how much can our government see. I mean this diagram is so clear and real, that I just need to wonder can the government really see everything we do and everywhere we go. With the availability of GPS and the kind of maps like the one on Google Earth, if the government were truly interested in your where abouts is seems like they could see everywhere you stop in your daily life. I know this sounds a little bit paranoid, but with technology like this, you know they could do it. That being the case, then why can't they find Osama Bin Laden. Don't you really think that they could locate him with all the latest computer technology? Well, you would think so.

If you think about it, the big brother theory is not a new one, but rather an old one. Many moons ago, George Orwell wrote a book called Nineteen Eighty Four in which he believed that the government affectionately called "Big Brother" would be watching us everywhere we go. He wrote this book in 1949 which is odd that he wrote this book and then died a year later. Perhaps he knew more about all this than he told, but it is interesting that he predicted many of the things that would happen in the world today.