Who are You????????

Do we ever really know someone? Whenever someone joins a social network of any kind, there is always a particular persona that he or she wants to portray that will attract certain people. I think that everyone done lied about their age one time or another. One's own personal opinion is altered when asked to give a description of his or herself. The whole point is that people develop imaginary identities as well as steal others. The extent of the theft can be a small as using someones picture to using their personal information. It is not a odd thing to be done because it occurs often. http://ezinearticles.com/?Identity-Theft&id=138293. Especially now, the economy is going through a rough patch and everyone is trying to pull any and every scheme possible just to get a buck. It has become especially easy to do because now everyone want to have their bills or statements electronically sent to them. Credit cards, bank statements, and online purchases are all targets of those unwanted predators. Social networks are the easiest targets to disguise one's true identity or take on another. http://www.oddee.com/item_96910.aspx. This site displays all the unthinkable stories that has occurred on facebook and other social networks.

Technology and Defense

I believe the key to winning any war is strategy. If there isn't a structured setup where all possible situations are simulated and practiced then one should not even enter war. We have grown as a race when it comes to war tactics. We have gone from using horses and boats as our only means of transportation in war to using satellites and other various machinery to predict, detect and simulate any possible scenario. Surveillance of any suspicious activity and individuals. The surveillance devices that are used for army and defense purposes are enhanced to maximize protection.http://www.army-technology.com/contractors/surveillance/innovative-sensor/. Philip Agre's " Surveillance and Capture" differentiate between surveillance and capture. Everyone from one time or another played a part in the capture by being a willing participant in giving information that will track one's location or activity. The surveillance done by the government is done for our protection, from what I am told, but that is not always the case.http://www.notanotherconspiracy.com/2010/03/surveillance-cameras-in-national-forest.html The evolution of guns and strategic war tactics have not only been physical but it has somewhat become virtual. Computer viruses, hacking into companies systems and databases are happening all the time and that is just the beginning.

Polygamy vs. the Single life

When I think of Polygamy, I see several women of various ages married to a one man and each woman has between 3 to 5 kids and they all live in a small close-knit community, where they are very religious and are somewhat excluded from the rest of the world. I know that my basic description may appear to be a plot of a show that on television, but that is what I built up in my head based on the description given to me from here and there.My description is not too far off from the truth. http://www.pri.org/politics-society/polygamy-in-america1873.htmlThese communities are based on the Gemeinschaft model(common-ship) because of the close communities and everyone know everyone. The gender roles in these communities are defined and set with little to no room for any elevation. Women are inferior to men and one wife has more power of the next. In appose to the modern day woman has goals and ambition lives by the Gesellschaft model(companion-ship) not neccessarily want to get married and have kids. That lifestyle is not for everyone and I do believe everyone has a choice. Women being thought of as equals and companions other than property and inferior.The way I see it that women stepping out of the housewife role was neccessary. http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/women/. In Stuart Moulthrop's " You Say You Want a Revolution?" he uses the "digtal revolution" as a turning point in which there was a change in hope for something better. The liberation of technological systems. The freedom to learn in any order. The same goes for gender roles for the feminist movement. Liberation for women rights for equality.

Efficency

In one of my past blogs, I talked about how we have become so dependent on machinery to do the job for us. Machines are now making human contribution in manufacturing a particular item nonessential. Computers have taken the place and the jobs of many willing individuals. For instance, when a product is produced in a factory, a mass amount is produced using one or many machines. That same product produced by hand would need several hundred workers and much more time to produce. Even though machines has improved the quality of products, the the uniqueness of of the product lost. Yes, the quality may have improved but there are many things that were lost. I know it may sound like repetition when I say people jobs were lost and their sense of accomplisment if one must think in that way. We have been socialize to feel a sense of pride in the things that we produced with our own hands. There is this show on the history channel called" Modern Marvel". This show is like the behind the scenes to things that we eat daily that are produced in large quanities and packaged. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2rM6RuuQdw There are fewer people working at these factories because it is cheaper to pay the one time cost on a machine than to continously pay an person that will refute things. Just Like the video of " The Machine is Using Us/ing Us" ,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE hypertext is all around and how it is everywhere. I remember talking about a video I've seen where an individual spoke about man's purpose is to produce more technology. I remember him saying that technology does not die, it only changes. It's true machines improve efficency, but that only weakens the indivduals and shifts the power from the indivdual to the machine.

Evolution of the Amish

I read an article in the New York Time from September 2009 about an Amish community transitioning their local newspaper titled "The Budget" into the digtal age.http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/21/technology/internet/21link.html?_r=1 Now and days even the Amish has become apart of the internet hype. I've always known the Amish of being diligent to their cultural practices besides the reality show "Amish in the City" from some time ago. http://www.newline.com/amishinthecity/ . " Amish in the city" was a show where young Amish adults were placed in a house with other guys and girls in L. A. Usually during this time the young adults are allowed to go places such as Malls and do activities such as driving a car that are not normally allowed in the Amish culture. This time is called a "Rumspringa", http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5455572 The teens are allowed go out and exeperience the outside world, it is expected for them to return to the church. The Amish are Gemeinschaft communities that haven't yet evolved into the society whereas electronic devices are attachments to their lives. They secluded themselves and work and produced things for each other. These Amish communities have control of the mean of production which is better for a community. There is no specialization of work or trade because it is a group efford in everything that is done. I would think that whenever a exchange would take place that a Bazaar market is the adequate way of going about it because the community relationship they have within these small Amish communities. To build a relationship between the producer and the consumer has learnt to be the most beneficial. The Amish decision to step into the digtal age has seem to be confusing because as states in the New York Times, "It wouldn’t just be for an Amish readership anymore.” They are opening up their community to the outside world.