GPS - Global Positioning Systems

TRACKING VEHICLES

Mobilus which uses GPS to know were exact locations of an owners vehicle. If a car is started by any means besides a key or is towed when it isn't supposed to be, an alarm is triggered. A call is first made to the owner to see if they know what is going on, if not the police are called. The route taken by the vehicle can be mapped by GPS and sent to police. This system then allows someone at the company headquarters to activate the horn and brake lights, and if safe cut the fuel to the engine.

AIRPLANE SAFETY

In the very near future to prevent airplanes from being used as missiles, there will be such thing on most planes called 'Dead-Man's Switch'. This switch would allow the pilot to turn over navigational control to an on-board GPS-based auto-landing system. It would send a mayday signal to air-traffic control, search a database for the nearest airport, receive landing authorization and land. No one on board would able to regain control. Although if a hijacker jammed the GPS, the system would put the plane in a holding pattern until it reacquired the signal..

When reading this, it is hard to believe that this is a computer in control! A simple computer that has only the understanding of on and off, ones and zeros.
There is nothing wrong with GPS but, Is it going beyond the point where humans are in control? Think of it this way, a computer is now controlling if a car can get fuel and in the very close future, landing an airplane! Has it come to the point were humans are beginning to give up there rights to be human and passing it on to a mere machine??? Was it always like this since the Industrial age set in?
Just think... this technology of GPS and loosing ones privacy is in good hands right now, what happens when it gets into the wrong hands??? Will there be anywhere to hide?
Technology is all well and good but maybe it is growing so fast that society has to take a step back and think, 'Where is this all going???' 'Who is in control, a computer that can tell my car if it is ok to use fuel, or a smart chip that has the right to tell me if I can enter a building or not???'

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