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Convenience at a price

Recently I purchased the new Motorola Droid through my carrier Verizon. It was a relief letting go of my Blackberry Pearl, though I did get a lot of use out of it. I was all set to have my daughter snag it so she could use it for punching numbers, but as soon as she saw all the games I could download on the Droid, well, now the B-Berry is collecting dust, its last 6 a.m. alarm rang days ago.

Though the Droid is nice, it does bring with it an increased sense of nervousness about the evolution of our social culture. Sure, I like gadgets, new technology, faster processors, crystal clear monitors, and all that, but when I see new apps from Google that allow you to take a picture of someone or something and retrieve any type of information about that person or object, it gets a little scary.

There is much talk and philosophy about the onset of social unification, integration, collectivism, etc. It seems inevitable, and I am not sure I am ready for it. Or rather, I am not sure I am ready to give up myself. It is all too clear to me that even though this new phone sports a faster chip, better camera, new OS, bigger touch-screen, it is still a clumsy device. This clarity will create a new device that is smaller, faster, better, and more user friendly, and will ultimately no longer be what we see today as the hand-held. In other words, the closer the communication tools are to my head, the more utility they provide, and the more utility, the more I depend on it.

Not sure how I feel about Verizon turning off my implant because I paid my bill late, or for some other reason have not participated in sanctioned collectivism.

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