“Imagine a future in which individuals use mobile computers to maintain constant contact with a vast information network that unites everyone into a single community. Is this future a utopia or a social abomination? Technophiles see this as a utopian future. Given the current technological age, this future may even be the inevitable evolution of society. This same future, however, also perfectly describes the abominable world of the Borg, from the science-fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. In this series, the Borg obsessively assimilate new technology into their bodies and their society. The result is a robot-like collective group without individuality, emotion, or compassion. Many individuals fear that as life becomes more technological it also becomes less “human.””
Link: At what cost pervasive? A social computing view of mobile computing systems (research.ibm.com)
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