Consider the impact of personal networking devices, in terms of the environment. What do you think are the biggest areas of immediate impact? How about long term impact?
I believe that the impact is going to start to grow on the environment more and more. As of immediate impact I believe advertisements and marketing is really going to start influencing people more and more. This will be through personal devices instead of huge billboards everyone has a cell phone and soon everyone will have a regular smart phone. Why would anyone have a giant sign when they can reach hundreds of others on their phones? Also now that everyone has a cell phone every two years they are getting new ones so what happens to the old ones? The collective total is around 426,000 phones a day are thrown away in the us alone, (Thats 155,490,000 a year) according to the source below. So this going to impact the actual environment in the future. These are two different environments but they are all interconnected in the end.
http://gizmodo.com/258789/how-many-cell-phones-in-the-us-are-decomissioned-every-day?tag=gadgetscellphonemurder
This is a very interesting approach to this week's reflection blog. I was thinking in a more broad perspective, I guess. But, you bring up a good point regarding smartphones, especially since it seems that organizations are already starting to take this approach to advertising.
ReplyDeleteGood points. I don't think it will be too long before we start seeing targeted advertising being built into our phones and sold at a subsidy, kind of like Amazon does with their cheaper kindle with ads. Imagine an iPhone that is half price but you get popups for apps and music and your lock screen is a full sized ad for Ke$ha or something.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you're saying, I think advertising will become individualized (like it is on computers) on smart phones. I'm also curious about what will happen with recycling and bio-biodegradability of phones and other technology.
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