Philosophy Wire: Happy New Year, with zombie phones!

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2012-12-24]: Experts claim that 2013 will be the year of the “zombie phones”, with new viruses and trojans will manage to take over your special personal device. [source: web news] Technology is good, but not when it is useful. A phone is a phone. A computer is a computer. Now that we have turned phones into computers we have to pay the price. And for what? For updating our Facebook status? Or for just viewing emails or Excel files which we will then process on our “normal” PC / laptop?!? Wow…

 

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