Frankly speaking, I now have problems thinking of the technologies being used and can be used in Singapore based on my short period of living here. However, I can feel strongly how people rely on technologies here and how much people love them. Most importantly, I can clearly feel the convience that technologies provide in Singapore when I went back to China. The items I can figure out are as follows: i-phone (being widely used currently), figure print IC (maybe possible in future).
I still remember how Cellphone changed people's lives when it first became popular and there was a movie in 2003 named Cellphone in China, which tells the real stories that how cellphone changed people's lives in a humorous way. And that movie became my favourite and made me think a lot. In the movie, marriage broke up, because the wife could get the long calling list of her husband and find out who he is always speaking to. A famous Host of a TV show loses his job as his girl out of marriage takes a picture of them and bribes him. People in the countryside would feel they are superior only because they own cellphones. And everything happens in the movie is because of cellphone. Well now people will not think too much of it as it's been a part of people's life. And to me, i-phone is a developed version of common cellphone. I can see people reading emails, listening to music, watching TV, playing games and chatting with friends using an i-phone everywhere, however, I don't see these many i-phone users in China, which may explain the fast-paced living style of Singapore and also the high price of an i-phone counts here too.
I don't know if it makes any sense to call it fingerprint IC. What I mean is that someday our fingerprint will be stored in a system and it's the IC of us. We don't need to carry the real plastic IC everyday, and whenever our identity is upon request, just get our thumb scanned, thus the EZ-link card can be replaced too. It's actually not a new idea, but I think it's more practical in Singapore rather than in a bigger country.
Well my short list is obviously too short, however, I would like get better ideas of our local friends.
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Yes, Haoxin, such things are definitely possible. This also leads to identity theft etc. The finger print thing, my laptop has a fingerprint identification facility....when I first bought it, I was very intrigued and facinated with it....but I hardly use it! Gosh! How DI can I get, uh??! Just as in the movies, now scanning the eye is innovation as well. Imagine, going through immigration where our eyes are scanned.....hmmmm......
ReplyDeleteWe were just chatting about fingerprint access as we were leaving class. Xernieve shared how the door of her aunt's car is operated using fingerprint and just three days after buying the car, the door failed to open, and the mechanics could not find the problem. So much for efficiency huh?
ReplyDeleteWell fingerprints?? hmm.. i am thinking more in line of micro-chip... I think the new world will be to micro-chip all of us.. so u dun need to even carry ic or anything :) wouldnt that be cool!!?? :p well this topic was indeed explored but human rights issue is the only thing stopping it I guess.. but honestly.. it wouldnt be hard to find a criminal then.. where would be the fun??? :p
ReplyDeleteHi Rachael, in the movie the man was killed in order to take his eye for identification. Are we going to lose figers if it carries our ID? Who knows!
ReplyDeleteBut people are always creative on new technologies. We should keep an eye on how to use technology wisely.
yewww........eye taken for identification.....so grosss....;)
ReplyDeleteif the movies are any thing to go by...then I guess we will be losing our ..er..body parts...oh my! But yes, we should not use technology blindly (;) but we need to be focused, that is, the outcome of the use of such tools is important.