The Evernet is a very interesting aspect of the Internet, one in which I have never really considered. To have everything thing be connected to you and each other would be amazing, but weird at the same time. There would be a lot of pros and cons.
To start off, to have everything connected to you would be very convenient. The book mentioned that your garage door would automatically open and your furnace would reorder it’s own parts when needed. Our society tends to like things that ‘do it’ for us. At the same time this reminds me of the robot movie with Will Smith and how things would just take over our lives. Our houses would know our preferences and change to our settings when we walked into a room. Would people just turned into these ‘routined’ beings that never changed preferences and did nothing for themselves?
There would be great medical benefits, as the book said, your medical data would be transmitted continuously to your physician. If something started to change, for instance your heart rate, your doctor would be notified and they would be able to follow up. Or if you were having a heart attack the medics would be automatically called for.
The Evernet might divide our society into distinct class by wealth, because I’m sure that the Evernet would not be affordable to all, or at least not for a long time. You would have the class that could afford all these great benefits that ‘easened’ their lives. And then you would have the class that couldn’t afford it and would still have to get to a phone in the middle of a heart attack to call the medics.
There would also be the issue of privacy and hackers, which are present on the Internet today. If someone could hack into your personal Evernet somehow, then they would have access to everything you are connected with, for instance your house, car, and personal information.
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It seems kind of scary to picture something practically run your life. I wonder what would happen if the Evernet starts to malfunction or get hacked. I agree that this could be a great step for the medical field, but at what price are people willing to use it. If it malfuctions and starts giving false readings, are doctors going to subject their patients through numerous test and scans?
I tend to be wary of any transmitter that can track all the systems of my body and report them to a centralized location. Is it just me or is this all a little bit Matrix? I find the idea of constant connectedness frightening and it seems that we are heading toward some sort of technical overload. Could you imagine being able to track every preference of a set of individuals and then creating and placing marketing that directly matches their need base? Whoa...billboards that change based on your "system preferences", commercials on VOD based on your previous purchaes, it's all way too creepy for me.
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