http://www.bluecoat.com/company-blog/2014-02-20/why-your-mobile-device-isn%E2%80%99t-secure-you-think
I recently read an article that discussed how vulnerable our mobile devices are to malicious attacks, malware, and snooping by others. Over 80% of mobile users have used mobile devices to check a bank account recently, 53% have transferred money between accounts, 27% made a payment, and 21% deposited a check with their phone camera. This is pretty serious stuff, considering many people are switching from traditional computers to mobile devices for all their web-browsing, file-downloading, note-writing, or bank-checking tasks.
All the crazy things happening in cyberspace nowadays is, on a side note, making SciFi a tougher genre to write about. Where are we going where we haven't gone in the past few years? Mobile devices at the level they're at were not even an idea in people's minds until Steve Jobs brought the iPhone to consumers in 2007, only 7 years ago, and look how far we've come. However, the implications of that technology use is becoming a hotter discussing which will likely find it's place in literature soon.
Students are no longer being taught cursive in schools. Students are in typing as early as 2nd grade. Reports are easier to be read in computer-printed, machined form, and teachers are perpetuating these technological adoptions. Textbooks on iPads. Clickers for answer responses in class. Less human interaction.
Technology will enable us to do more, be more productive, connect to family and friends we can no longer see; however, if we overlook what we are giving up in return, we are a society headed towards dire straits, with a civilization over-utilizing technology most people don't understand.
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