So in yesturday class on Alec blog and in class he was talking about how they are are going to be puting wireness internet down town. My first reaction was oh that is so cool. People could serf the net anywhere downtown. But then I got to thinking, you could only do this if you had a lap top and wireness internet on your computer ( which I think is manatory for lap top that are new) How many people really own a laptop? Especailly people of the downtown ares, many of these people who would use are business people and many those people have offices whcih have desk tops! Another thing witht he wire internet for free, how would they monitor it and such. I was told that this service would have some limitation to it, such a what could be accessed and on this server, Then in fact are you not breaking thier pravacy. I mean it is your computer should you be able to look at what you want using the your computer. But then I guess you shouldn't be watching inapporpirate images when you are having coffee. I wouldn't want a child to see these things. Is in the end I think I have mixed feeling about this new technology, I believe that it could be great but how to you monitor it.
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Hi Heather,
I think that having wireless internet downtown is definitely beneficial to a lot of people... but you`re right... how many people could actually use it? First of all, do you really see that many people sitting in Victoria Park with a lap top... just having a picnic and surfing the net? I certainly don't! I think for some, like students and maybe some business people, it could be really good. Honestly, i don't have much of a position on it... i'm indifferent, mostly because i won't be using it, even though i have a lap top!
If I can't look at inappropiate images during my coffee in public, I see no point in living.
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