Bringing it All Together

One of the most vastly used technologies of our time period is by far the modern cell phone. Almost every individual has one and uses one on a very regular basis these days and they are not just prevelent in the United States, but they are world-wide and ever expanding.

To recap just a little on where I started this blog versus where it has gone I want to re-cap just a bit. To begin with I discussed a bit of the history of the cell phone and where we were to where we have come. This technology truly has transformed drastically into an industrial society and has served as an intermediary between further industrial revolutions throughout society. Our phones have connected us on levels that were never dreamt of just ten to twenty years ago. Now-a-days we have applications for almost anything a user desires. No longer do we live in the days of just being able to place and receive calls, but now we can access numerous email accounts, bank accounts, news, weather, traffic, pretty much anything we so desire.

The move into the industrial society with special attention to the concrete organizational and cultural forms of technological innovation showed just how the cell phone technology is at the forefront of the industrual movement. Our abilities to connect and communicate in a moments notice have intertwined us with each other and our businesses on a twenty-four hour basis and the technological development only continues to grow and prosper. With newly innovated forms of unlimited internet access, more and more users have become dependent upon their phones for tasks they used to only be able to complete while being parked in front of a laptop or desktop. The innovation of the cell phone has on one side provided us with more physical freedom from our desks while on the other side has removed more of our personal freedom. No longer can we truthfully make claims that we are away from our cell phones, when honestly we just don't want to answer. We are more connected to oen another at all times and we are more disconnected from our personal freedoms from responsibility.

Another major issue that I went into depth on was the issue of privacy among personal cell phone users. As our phones continually get smarter and smarter and more capable, so do also those interested in hacking into our personal information. More and more information is being passed via text message or through so-called protected sites that opens us up to a world of wanted hacking information. Almost everyday the reports on internet fraud can be seen or read about and as time goes by and we keep requesting newer applications to further uncomplicate our complicated lives we will further open ourselves up to the possiblity of becoming the victim of one of those smart hackers. As the phones get smarter, so too, do the hackers that want our private, personal information.

Finally, just a note on the future of the information age and where we are headed with those handy little devices we all cherish so much. The cell phone has evolved faster than almost any other technology and becomes increasingly smaller and more user friendly. As people discover they desire a phone to preform a certain function, the creators that write the programs for those phones go to work. It seems every six months or so a brand new phone becomes old news and obsolete. Society always desires the next best thing and the newest, so the business is there for the newest technology. We gripe about a flaw and the flaw gets fixed then becomes the next best piece of technology available. I only see the cell phone as contiunally getting better and society figures out exactly what they want their devices to do. I am curious to see what these devices will cost as they become smarter and smarter and what new applications they will be used for. Who would have guessed they would have become what they are today after such a short period of time ago when virtually no one owned one of these amazing little gadgets.