29 Random Tidbits About Digital and Online Media That Help Us Stay Connected With You, Ya Big Sweetie Pie

Boy, these gadgets and gizmos sure do some neat stuff
29 Random Tidbits About Digital and Online Media That Help Us Stay Connected With You, Ya Big Sweetie Pie

We usually take technology for granted, but a list like this helps us see how truly world-changing it really is. We’re definitely showing our age here, but none of this insanity existed when we were kids. The advancements happened gradually enough that we just kind of got used to them, but a once-over of these tidbits opened our eyes to the wonders and horrors of this strange new world. 

If our younger selves were plunked here today, these would all help give us a complete meltdown.

Reading Robots

Real-Life Dystopian Tropes READING ROBOTS Through high-speed image capture and CD9876 detection of characters, a program called ANPR can identify a license plate at high speed and decode the text associated with it, without human intervention. AB1234 CRACKED

Automated Jobs

Real-Life Dystopian Tropes AUTOMATED JOBS In the past, when jobs have been made obsolete by automation, companies have created new ones to meet their needs. But lately, artificial intelligence is being employed instead of human Dryan workers. CRACKED

Biodata Collection

Real-Life Dystopian Tropes BIODATA COLLECTION Tech experts are warning that society is sleepwalking into a dystopian surveillance nightmare. The growth of the biometric and facial recognition sector has started to have a major impact on human behavior and the communities it monitors. CRACKED

Bossware

Real-Life Dystopian Tropes BOSSWARE Since COVID-19, there has been a rise of companies offering software that tracks workers' every move, keystroke, and location. This bossware is often installed without the worker's knowledge, and can be used to collect data for lawsuits or other nefarious purposes. CRACKED

Smart Cities

Real-Life Dystopian Tropes FACIAL RECOGNITION IN SMART CITIES The iPhone XS's facial recognition software is seen as a stepping stone to more complex AI that will be implemented across the infrastructure of smart cities. There is concern that there is potential for abuse by police forces and targeted advertising by retailers. CRACKED

Quantum Realm Suits

In Avengers: Endgame, the Quantum Realm suits are 100% CG. They never bothered making physical versions of them. CRACKED.COM

Human Gene Editing

Real-Life Dystopian Tropes HUMAN GENE EDITING The CRISPR-Cas9 gene editor went to work inside human patients in a landmark trial, snipping apart DNA and inserting, deleting or modifying genes. Another experiment aboard the ISS showed that CRISPR can generate and repair DNA breaks in yeast cells in microgravity. Great news? CRACKED

Social Credit Scores

Real-Life Dystopian Tropes SOCIAL CREDIT SCORES The social credit system is a moral ranking system that the Chinese Communist Party has been constructing for years to monitor the behavior of its enormous population. Punishments for bad behavior include travel bans and slow internet speeds. CRACKED

Deepfakes

Real-Life Dystopian Tropes Al-GENERATED VIDEO A deepfake is a video that uses artificial intelligence to make it look like someone said or did something they didn't. This can be used for things like porn, spoofs, and satire, but also to spread false information. CRACKED

The French Guy Who Took Out His Whole Town’s Internet

In France, one dad took out WEIRD WORLD his whole town's internet with a signal jammer. Social Netwo f Facebook Instagram Twitter G+ P t Googles Pinterest Tumble in N Не was just trying to get his kids off social media at night, but he killed the whole town's Linkedin WhatsApp Messenger internet connection every night he used the jammer. CRACKED.COM

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Online Relationships

Almost half of relationships (in America) begin online. CRACKED.COM 40 percent of people say that their relationship began online in one form or another, whether that be dating apps like Tinder, or social media like Facebook.

Source: Pew

Facebook

Cops have been heavily relying on Facebook since as far back as 2012. In a 2012 survey, among cops who used social media, 80% of them said they use it to investigate crime. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Source: CNN

Facebook Dating

Facebook unveiled its new dating feature, simply called Dating. MODEI VACATION Conversatione You 28 Christine, 28 Facebook Dating will definitely us

YouTube Scrapes

Spotted an incredible video on YouTube? OUR PRIC HICH QUALITY MID END It might be P. MONEY. a scrape. AND HOW Scrapes are pieces of existing videos th

Social Media Gurus

BRAND Social Media Gurus are everywhere. A recent count found 181,000 of them on Twitter, alone. MARKETING sUCL SALES Unless a person has a thorough u

Amp’d Mobile

Founded in 2005, Amp'd Mobile invented the first entertainment-based cellphone two years before the iPhone. It featured a 3G connection, apps, and Liv

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