Back in 2005 IT blogger Joe Francica suggested that cell phones, web and GPS would soon converge to turn society into one always-on, always-available journalistic entity ... where no one could escape the all-seeing eye of your brother:
In the very near future, everyone with a cell phone will be carrying their very own publishing tool. Each phone will be equipped with some location determining equipment. And most likely each phone will be able to capture imagery. Link the two together and you have a single photojournalist.So let history note the press release issued today by Kajeet. This cell phone service for tykes and teens announced a "GPS Phone Locator" to help parents keep track of their offspring -- you know, watching a dot on a map move as sonny heads from school to soccer and, hey, wait, that candy store is off limits!
This tech wizardry isn't new -- phone tracking and kid monitoring have been around for years, and the cell in your pocket can be located by triangulating the signal off neighboring cell towers -- but now it's so cheap. Less than 10 bucks a month to have your child tracked by a big eye in the sky.
Soon your wallet and sneakers and dogs and bank receipts will have tiny GPS chips helping you never forget the location of anything. Alas, this means that soon everyone will always know where to find you.
