Lost or Stolen redefined by technology.
Now a days theres a big different between lost and stolen items. Lost items are those objects that you misplace and can’t find ever again, and stolen is if someone takes something from you, or knows that an item is yours and doesn’t return it. As i was reading the article about the “StolenSideKick” where a girl finds a sidekick,(a smartphone) and knows who the owner is. She refuses to return it with the lame excuse that “it’s too bad she lost it, and finders keeper.” This girl thought that that was the end, that no one, including the police would pay any attention to a phone case. The husband of the woman who lost the sidekick took the case to the next level, not because he wanted the girl to return the sidekick, but for moral and humane reasons. He started blogging about her, posting up pictures of her, even making a website about the girl. Thousands of people started reading and responding to these articles and updates. Journalist, lawyers and even police officers started to give him advice on how to handle the situation. By the end of the tenth day, the girl with the sidekick got arrested and had to return the sidekick. This proves that people can come together and move mountains, not in the classical way by walking and doing public hearings, but just from behind your computer at home. He got the attention of thousands by just writing in blogs and forums. He gave the people a story, a story worth reading and people responded. This does not only show the power of people but the power of technology in this new era. We don’t see it because we are living it, but technology is moving at a pace that its actually some what scary. Technology is moving so quick that we as humans do not know how far its going to take us and if we going to be able to stop it without harming us. At this very moment technology is the best thing that happened to us, but what’s next? sci-fi becomes real life? i guess we’ll have to wait and see.
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