May the odds be ever in your favor

The hunger games written by Suzanne Collins it the first book in a trilogy the book takes place in the future and in the country Panem were tries the 13 districts to make a revolt against the power. One district is completely destroyed; the reaming twelve receives a hard punishment. Every year a boy and a girl from each district will be drawn in a lottery. The gain is to become a tribute in a present gladiatorial game live on TV. There is one winner, the one that survives. Is a cruel book about a sick world, a class society where money gives you a free will. If you don’t have it you and your family is just a part in the rich people’s game. Humans are not treated like humans in this book. Children murdering children isn’t pleasant to read about. But they have no other choice. It’s killing or be killed that are their opportunities. I hope that we never will get there. We can find people in this world that are killing for not to be killed, in the meantime are we having a good time here in the richer countries. We are watching people do the most disgusting, scary, intimate thing on TV and we want to see more. We are sick in many ways. Can we say no? It is easy to sit home in the sofa thinking that what's shown on the TV isn't real. I think that's how the people in the capital of Panem thinks. That's not real, too far away. Watching news sometimes dosen't feel real, maby it's easier to deal with all the bad things that is happening in this world if you think like that. Maby it is necessery for not becoming crazy about the fact that you can't help every one no matter how badly you even want. I hope we are long way from a real hunger games, I do also hope that we never wil enjoy watching people kill other people. There is a big difference between life and death and forcing some one and free will.

Design for the dump

There is a fact that our technical equipment breaks a little bit too easy. It depends on bad quality, bad luck and free will. That’s true we don’t always want our things to have a long life time. Then we can’t buy new ones. Everyone wants the latest, the newest and the best. The thing is as Annie Leonard tells in the movie The story of electronics: it is not good for the environment. The differences between the electronics bought a year ago and the once available to buy today are big. There is a development in the technical world that is amazing. No other word can describe it. A phone bought two years ago has probably bigger differences with a new one then five years old phone has with the two years old one. Is the development going to slow down? No one knows. A hundred years ago they thought that we had invented all most everything. Do we think so today? Barley....

In the mobile telephone market we can find a lot of good phones. Better then we need for a simple call; they aren’t just phones longer they are small computers. The trend in this market right now is that it isn’t the better performance or a new phone that’s important; it’s the applications that are important. Applications that is available on the internet that makes it possible to use your phone in different purposes. In other words the phones can change and the software can be updated. It isn’t the same need for a new phone. I believe in that, better phones with a higher quality that can be updated. Companies can earn their money in a new way and we can save some money but most important the nature by using our stuff for a longer time. I do also believe that these thoughts can be used in other types of business for example TV: s and computers.

Snooping

When I read the article Snooping Bosses by Kristina Dell and Lisa Takeuchi Cullen I wasn’t surprised. Today there is a technical possibility to gather a lot of information about a person, you can’t hide your traces is everywhere; your phone, your credit card and so on. Your boss wants you to work, he pays you for it. So is it ok for him to check you up? I think so. I have got no secrets at work I’m doing my work and I’m hoping that my colleagues does the same. He can read my emails at my work computer and listens to my phone calls if he doesn’t think that I’m working, it is ok for me. He can check if I’m at home when I’m calling sick it also ok. I think that is your duty to don’t do things at work that needs to be checked up. The only thing I want back is when the clock turns five am I no longer in service and then he isn’t allowed to check me up.

When I look at the prossibility to gather information about people I think that it the fact that you can’t hide is good, when it comes to people who commits crime for an example. Last year in Örebro a rapist was free. They say that 16 girls had to meet him before the police caught him. The caught him when he didn’t appeared for his DNA test. The police was going to test every man in the area. If there was a database with every person’s DNA available for the police they could have caught him after the first girl. It could have saved 15 girls. Does it harm you if your DNA is at the police, as much as it should harm your daughter if she was raped?  I don’t think so. I think that’s good. It’s for my own safety. They can take my DNA. As long as it’s for a purpose that is good for me and others they can listen to my calls or trace where I am.

We share a lot of information about ourselves on the anyway. We don’t care about our privacy especially much at the internet. We become member on communities and fill in all the information they ask for without even reading the license agreements, or do you? I don’t. It is possible to trace me at the internet; what I do, what I read and when I know that. I have no idea about how it works but I know that it is possible. Maybe I should think after one more time before I share myself on the internet. Many people share more than they know about and want. Think about facebook, facebook knows almost everything about you: Your friends, your photos and your communications with your friends. The commercial there is chosen after the person facebook thinks or knows that you are. It scares me because so much of it is perfect for me, things that I want to buy appears on the screen. But I have chosen to join that community and because of that I have chosen to share all that information about myself. No one has forced me.
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> Sometimes we happily share and sometimes we get afraid. But what are we afraid of? When we have nothing to hide there is no reason to be afraid. I think of the poor people who have to be snooping on me. How boring. For me it’ is not a problem, they can take my DNA listen to my phone calls if it’s for a good thing, others and mine safety for an example. My safety we are talking about and for me it’s much more important than my privacy. And people who has nothing to do at with my personal life checks me up just because the can let them do, I feel sorry for them who hasn’t got anything more fun to do.