In The New York Times, John Markoff writes about how the evolution of mapping applications on cellphones influences our lives, our perceptions of the world, and our notions of privacy.
A full-blown map-based, location-aware mobile world would entail rethinking basic American notions of privacy. For a generation of older Americans, exposing their precise location around the clock to an army of little brothers for marketing and advertising purposes is a privacy invasion…On the other hand, there is a generation of smartphone users in their 20s that has grown up sharing the most intimate details of their lives on MySpace and Facebook. They may have a different point of view.
Link to full story in the New York Times.
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