It's not about what you see, it's about being seen

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It's starting to get dark. I turned on my car's lights.
"Man... you're getting old. Can't see those cars already?"
My friend was mocking me.
Of course I still can see those cars. That's not the problem. It never was.

GPS: Will we stop for direction too?

Cellphones is already taking us away from our surroundings. Many Blackberry users don't spend much time with people near them. At least that what we have in Indonesia. They heavily use BB messenger, IM, emails, and other applications instead of communicating socially with people around them. It brings far people closer, but push nearby human beings away. Probably that's why Nokia no longer use 'connecting people' as their tag line.

Devices get smart: we are close to judgement day already?

Recently I purchased my first smartphone ever. I choose Android platform.  I chose Samsung Galaxy 551 as the phone model. In short, I quickly add my Gmail account. I have several Google hosted email accounts, and I want to get all the emails on the device. That's why I chose Android at the first place.
I was amazed to see how all my Google data can be sync to the phone. Once I logged in, I saw all my contacts downloaded. Wow! I love cloud computing!