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| The social environment of ubiquitous technologies which we are experiencing in everyday life is increasingly becoming complicated. It cannot be simply understood as the relationship between users and tools anymore.
If the new technology given to us is understood just as a comfortable mechanical tool, without conceiving the connection between the human and the computer, it could be difficult to recognize effective social transforming and flows in the ubiquitous environment.
The private area can be no longer clearly distinguished from public area in times when we are getting used to smart lifestyle technologies like mobile phones, Wlan, GPS, RFID and smart house systems.
In this case we sometimes forget the importance of the individual plays in ubiquitous communication and we raise questions about tolerance, responsibility and freedom between the general public and the individual.
According to investigations into networking, knowledge and the digital age by the students at the University of Prince Edward Island following points can be stated: -The value of a network increases exponentially as new members are added. - Internet working empowers individuals and creates decentralism. - The web codifies and trains all knowledge in its vast network of distributed links. - Sharing this knowledge enhances communication. The wireless or radio technology can be also characterized as mobile, portable, ubiquitous and affordable. The very important characteristic is that radio waves are enhanced by signals passing through the air rather than through strands of copper or optical fiber. Armin Medosch argues about the technology of Wlan that it provides a possibility about self-communication-infrastructures. The technology makes it possible to develop own communication infrastructures and to jump over the "last mile" which is the connection from the household to provider or telephone switching centre. Therefore Wlan technology takes two possible types of infrastructure: Peer-to-peer or ad-hoc mode, and the so called infrastructure mode. As a consequence we can use a more free communication method without so called control-centers. But self-organisation-network will be more and more required consideration and perception of the free network. The problem of ubicomp systems is that everything is becoming computerised. We have absolutely no idea where ubiquitous content control mechanisms will lead us. Since the Wi-Fi technologies have been emerging in the downtown areas where houses are close together some people have been spied by their neighbours. In companies most workers have been felt monitored after a mobile, GPS technology emerged. For instance a firm was monitoring the workers through a service of mobile phones called “seek out friends”. The matter of surveillance in a smart mobility world has already emerged as a major social concern surrounding ubiquitous public awareness. Protest of now familiar video surveillance and data tracking technologies is expanding to address the types of public and private monitoring, as well as civil interventions, enabled by hundreds of thousands of invisible, mobile computers, including RFID tags. Regardless, people are required to create awareness in an age of increased surveillance, that hacking can be a vital countermeasure and a commendable act of self-defense to discover the immaterial virtuality and the qualities of the information of new technologies. |
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