I'm not a scientist or an IT specialist like other PRESTAGS, but is the proliferation of wireless waves everywhere a good and healthy thing? There are now microwave towers in every suburb, and our brains are living in wireless soup 24/7.
In just 10 minutes I was able to bring up the PRESTAGS website on 8 different devices in my own home, 7 of which used internet wireless or mobile phone transmission (Windows PC + Macbook + Kindle + Zenbook with Linux + iPad + Nintendo 3DS + two mobile phones). My zenbook detects 4 other wireless networks from neighbours in range inside my back room. Out the door and down the road a few hundred metres are a cluster of towers on top of the local shops. And not everything is wireless, there are also wires everywhere. Do these emit anything?
Thygocanberra probably enjoys a bit more 'fresh air' than Python and I. Maybe I'm paranoid but I don't believe all this wireless can be good for us. The lawyer in me knows that the Telcos are massively powerful corporations, and if there are adverse side effects they would be covered up.
I particularly dislike mobile phones, and holding them directly against the head. I fear mobile phones and wireless networks may be the asbestos of the future.
There have been many studies of radiation from Mobile Phones, but no identified danger - the radiation is too weak and the wrong frequency to affect us.
However, there is considerable evidence to suggest that mobile computing putting us "always available" is reducing our happiness and keeping us in a more of less constant state of stress. However, I think that that makes us more like ancient humans who had to stay with the tribe to stay alive. That would have been a gossipy, superstitious and non private existence that we all would have found repelling. Everyone would just know what you ate, wore and who your partner was, like where we are heading now. And not even a Prestag for quite reflection!
Posted by: PythonMagus | Wednesday, 02 October 2013 at 07:31 PM