Internet of Things / Locative and Physical Media

The internet is something that was created with the intention of being beneficial to people. It is hard to disconnect from the internet because of the simple fact that you can not be a human being without being connected to the internet. Everyone uses the internet in some shape or form. Whether it is to check the weather on a weather app or updating a status. People can’t resist using the internet especially because it’s so accessible. Some airlines have inflight WiFi and people actually pay to use it. It is like they can’t stay unconnected from the world for a few hours. The youth especially has grown up only knowing the internet and how to be connected to each other without physically seeing each other so it would be hard for them to imagine a world without internet. The internet will only advance into the physical objects in our homes and people would not even question it because they are use to depending on the internet for everything. In the future I believe that connecting physics objects to the internet is both beneficial and detrimental. Julian Bleecker’s article shows the beneficial side of the internet. Attaching GPS’s to pigeons to tell us the quality of the air is great. We are using internet to benefit us and ensuring that our air is healthy for us to breathe. Internet usually makes things better in a way that it makes the objects smarter and more advance. It could however create more hacking but people tend to risk their privacy for the internet and fancy gadgets. Hacking could be both beneficial and detrimental. We would learn how to stop these hacks and make the security even stronger. But, if we can’t learn how to it puts peoples’ privacy at risk and makes them vulnerable. The article written by Nellie Bowles contributes to the detrimental side of internet on physical objects. The fact that the male partners can see everything that the female does gives her no type of privacy. That’s the problem with the internet expanding at such a fast rate, privacy is slowly disappearing. Her view makes sense at how mostly the men install these types of security cameras and have the most access to everything.

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