Friday 31 July 2009

原始摩登人

地理課的第一堂課,老師以平穩的聲音告訴了我們一個很令人驚恐的事實。
當你手提電話保持通話的狀態下在一個公共空間中穿過的時候,當局可以透過科技,以第三方侵入的方式將你身邊擦身而過的行人的手提電話接通(如果是關機的情況下還可以自動開機),然後記錄下你說的話,以便日後作爲呈堂證供。
……

剛才翻出舊碟一隻(eagle eye),就是講類似的内容。
科技的迅速發展讓我們離不開手提電話,電腦,甚至隨身便攜式音樂播放器。
而這些死物的高科技含量也叫人咋舌。
跟友人說我在ipod touch上上網,他們都覺得很新奇(或許是我認識的都是隱居在山洞的穴居人)。
竟然連一個音樂播放器也具備了無線上網功能,生活中又多了一個發展強迫症的起因。
以後,微波爐應該也可以上網,並且可以實時下載菜譜,並告訴微波爐應該如何煮這些菜,用什麽火候,煮多少時間……

頭一天上學的時候搭巴士,猛然發現巴士上面裝了4個攝像頭——監視車外以及車廂内的各種活動狀況。
這個不是最嚇人的,嚇人的是,它還有2個熒幕把車内和車外的監視活動狀況,每隔3分鐘滾動播放一次。
出發點大約是好的,車外的攝像頭可以監控路面的車況,以免發生車禍或者見到有乘客跑過來,可以多等人家幾秒鐘。
車内的,可以防止發生罪案。
並且還有1GPS追蹤,在熒幕上顯示你搭乘的巴士的實際位置,周邊馬路,以及它在整條巴士路缐的行進位置。
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這一切高科技的物事縱然是好,卻讓我有點驚恐。
生活是方便了許多,個人活動空間似乎又無限地縮小了。
生活在羊國已經算是逃離了現實的一大步,另外的幾步則是扔掉手提電話,手提電腦,隨身音樂播放器,遠離虛擬的現實世界。
回歸到原始的大自然中。

慢慢開始學懂被人找不到的優越感了。


1. thanks to laichungleung for pointing out. =)

8 comments:

laichungleung said...

實時 GPS 追蹤

Ha ha. You mean 實時=real time aren't you. Is Eagle Eye any good? That's considered an old movie already?

c.r said...

Haha yup, real time. How do u normally call it in Chinese anyway?
I dunno if it is old but my friend's seen it four times already. Plus imdb dates it as a 2008 movie. :p
It's not too bad but since I don't watch these type of "thrillers" very often i can't really judge. Though I find the ending quite lame.. :)

laichungleung said...

I think 即時 maybe better.

I was thinking about the post or comment made by hongkie, her husband says something like "I don't know you (anymore)" which becomes in his Cantonese "我晤知道你 ..."

4 times? 4 times? My record was I sat in a movie house in Chinatown watching "Prison on Fire" back to back 3 times in a row.

c.r said...

i've put "即時" in, thanks. =)

i like that "i dunno you anymore" translation, which reminds me of someone else's translation of "i'm not a dog person". —— “我不是一個狗的人”...

i definitely think that movie is not worth watching more than 2 times. i think i might have watched "amelie" four times, but that was a cute movie.

mad dog said...

驚恐 ~ 都明架. 有啲dance studios宜家都有surveillance cameras (not those that i am taking classes now), 令一啲同學不安, 雖然都係為大家安全(好似曾經有外人走入舞室搗亂), 但作為舞者/學生, 跳舞都俾人影低, 真係唔多舒服.

c.r said...

咪係囉,令人覺得冇哂個人私隱,好霸道。
你唔好返住classes先啦,好好休息下身體先!:D

lu said...

i just saw "overheard", and they did the same thing - basically they have the frequency tuning thingy, they just need to input your phone number, even though you're not talking on the phone, they can still listen to the sounds around the phone. v scary.

4 times of "eagle eye"... wow!

cr said...

i know...technology will become a threat sooner or later.
we're far too dependant on it.