My dream

I've been thinking if there are ways that people around the world can be connected without using SNS. However, I havent got to the solution.

It is hard to be connected with someone far away without using internet.

I want to own a business one day that has something to do with connecting people.

I came to the U.S. when I was 15. I met so many people from so many backgrounds. However, some my friends back home have never seen the world other than my home city and few cities in Japan. I wish they could meet with people outside of our city and experience things. But using SNS isnt nothing new and isnt interesting anymore. so I want to find ways without using internet or SNS.

This would be my life time question and am hoping to find ways someday.....

Business and SNS

Online article talked about SNS and Business coming together: http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10880936

Companies are hoping SNS to become a bigger force in online advertising. Everybody agrees that is the next big thing. A decade ago, Microsoft bought Hotmail—the firm that established web-based e-mail as a must-have service for internet users. This May it was AOL, a struggling web portal that is part of Time Warner bought Bebo, a small but up-and-coming online social network. However, I have a feeling this will be another feeling as partnering up with Time Warner for AOL...

Facebook, now allied to Microsoft, has fared worse. Its grand attempt to redefine the advertising industry by pioneering a new approach to social marketing, called Beacon, failed completely.

The article says
"Social networking may end up being everywhere, and yet nowhere."

I feel this is just a beginning and companies are trying out new thing and getting used to the new tool. Once they adapt, SNS will become their strong partner

the GPS mobile

In an article:
"GPS devices are getting smaller, and over the next couple of years more and more mobile phones will come equipped with chips that communicate with satellites in space, providing pinpoint data about your location"

In Japan:
Japan has had Internet in cell phone for a long time (i think about 8 years).
Because of that there are so many Internet sites for only cell phone.
Cities in Japan are so crowded and big. New building are built everyday and many shops change there name and owner so fast, nobody knows what's where.
One time I asked a guy working at an electrical appliances store in Tokyo,
"Do you know where I can find a restaurant called [....]?"
He said "I'm sorry I don't know."
I found the restaurant 1 block away from the store by using GPS on cell phone.
Now cell phone companies are adding GPS function to the cell phones.

The technologies are making our lives easier to live, but I'm sure in the old days people knew everyone around the street and could tell me what's where...

How the web polarized politics

Which government would you choose if you had a choice of

A government that monitors your every move,
or
A government that won't move without your opinion?

I would choose a government that monitors my every move.
Good companies do market research to find out what kind of things we like and want then provide goods or services.
So if government knows what we want and like, then government will act as it should.

if a government asks us for approval for everything. it's too much, if we do that then what's the point of having representatives or delegates for governing the country.

Computer technology can enable us to do all these, but will it be a good idea?