After reviewing the responses to Morville and Parry’s readings we found many students had similar opinions regarding “wayfinding” and surveillance. The ideas that Morville brings up in the reading about the development of human navigation skills made us look at these cognitive processes differently. The idea of navigating the internet seemed new to a lot of us. Parry brings up a variety statistics regarding human surveillance in today’s society. Here are a couple quotes we found captured the classes’ thoughts.

 
“The right to privacy ceases upon the publication of the facts by the individual, or with his consent.” (Warren & Brandeis, “The Right to Privacy,” Ubiquitous Surveillance)

 
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“As noted in Ambient Findability, pets can be injected with radiofrequency identification tags in case they get lost. Personal locator devices can be used to help care for people with Alzheimer’s disease.
One group of scientists are working on a set of flying cameras that look like robotic insects; these cameras will be able to pinpoint specific activities, network with each other, and record virtually anything… . Although this technology definitely has positive advantages, we need to start being careful of the dangers it possesses.”
-Monique Odom

 
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“People were excited; everything was new, efficient, unique: internet being described as a ‘utopia’. Although internet was and still is all these things, nothing, it seems, can come without a price.”
-Hadley Kunz

 
“Social media sites like Twitter have become “Foucault’s panopticon on steroids”, which doesn’t seem to rest well with our government.”
-Erica Johnson

 
“Since nearly everyone has a camera readily available (as Parry mentioned in Ubiquitous Surveilance) , every facet of your life can be made public.”
-Connor Battin

 
“The internet is becoming more and more individualized. It is transforming into something more tangible, like a person to whom we ask our questions and share our secrets (whether we realize it or not.)”
-Ashley Reynolds

 
“We no longer have to memorize phone numbers, birthdays, passwords, names, addresses, etc. We have something there to do it for us. My question is, what information have we used to fill that void in our brains?
-Jake Ruddle