SmartMobs: A Living Legacy

As soon as I read the introduction article SmartMobs, it made me reflect on my experience with the surveillance media experiment I did a couple weeks back. I remembered how the use of my phones and computer became less frequent because of my new knowledge that everything I was doing, saying, and viewing was all being recorded in some computer, somewhere else unbeknowingst to me. But ironically, the use of cell phones and computers are more useful now than ever. You can now talk to people across the world via skype, aim chat, or ustream. iPhone apps connect me to facebook, twitter, and myspace among many other social sites to keep me connected with everyone anytime of the day. I can only imagine what 2020 will look like in terms of technology and the way we use it. Smartmobs will only grow more powerful and readily available to the newest generations to continue this new legacy of technology.