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omething happened at the weekend! I was a witness to a very odd incident, which left me thinking about the role of technology.
Ahead of me at a traffic junction were two cars – waiting for the green light at the traffic lights to move forward. We were all in this queue; nothing special, an everyday, rather benign situation. At one point, the guy in the first car jumps out, and with a discernible scowl points the camera at the car behind him, then mine, and starts taking pictures. Camera firmly trained, shutter speed high, he takes photos, then jumps back into his car, and with a rubber- burning take-off – as well as an illegal move (turned right when not allowed) – it all looked a bit like a scene from the ‘Line of Duty’. Erm… what happened?! Are we extras in an amateur murder-mystery film or the main protagonists – and, more crucially, why?! So, this got me thinking: everyday technology, initially meant for our convenience, is slowly yet increasingly being ‘weaponised’, turning many ordinary folk into vigilantes. Mobile phones, outdoor and indoor cameras, social media groups, even air-borne drones – are all serving as spyware and some form of weapons in the wrong hands. People just convince themselves they have a good reason to deploy them!
I shudder at the thought of our ugly mugs sitting on some obscure social media channel, or Whatsup target group, having virtual darts thrown at, and our cars marked the “most wanted”, to be hunted across the county, by whomever the guy-with-a-mobile-phone had convinced to.
So, is technology good or bad? It makes one wonder.
Answers on a postcard, please!
Svetlana Josifovska, Editor
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