During the second decade of the twenty-first century (2010-2019), the march of the technology industry was not always bright, but positively presented to mankind, but included many of the bad aspects that had harmful and often destructive effects, such as preparing the field for spreading hatred. Through social media, providing new types of physical attrition to users, increasing cases of privacy defamation, causing suicide in front of selfie cameras and YouTube videos, as well as a dangerous and unprecedented escalation in cyber attacks on infrastructure such as electricity, water and gas facilities and others A, in encryption and ransom attacks and massive data breaches.
This came in a survey conducted by analysts «cnet News» cnet.com, and named «reviews of the second decade of the 21st century», which documents the positive and negative aspects of the IT industry in this period, and so far has been documented some points of the dark side of technology during This period, had direct or indirect damage to mankind, among which were:
Software robots
In the last decade, robotics have become widespread, and have been used extensively in advertising and promotion to become a major source of inconvenience, distraction and waste of time, whether via e-mail, voice calls and text messages via mobile phones. Some statistics estimate that propaganda robots emit more messages and calls than people actually carry out to manage their daily situations.There is no cure on the horizon for this problem, despite the promulgation of laws, legislation and technical countermeasures.
Manufacturing defects
During the period, the technology industry expanded to rely on some technologies that led to accidents and hazards as a result of burns, explosions and fires in devices, including the technology «lithium ion», on which built «lithium ionizing», which caused several incidents of this type, at least In mobile phones, as happened in the phone «Samsung Galaxy Note 7», which was withdrawn from the market after successive explosions in the battery, and the fire, as well as in the phenomenon of electronic cigarettes, which ended with accidents and serious health risks, and some new technologies in the field of solar panels.
Automatic navigation
Some of the navigation systems included defects and errors, which claimed the lives of at least 400 people during this period, most notably the defects of automated navigation systems in the new Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, which includes a part responsible for pushing the pointed tip of the aircraft «nose plane» Down under certain flight conditions, when receiving data from sensors, but it turns out that these systems receive the wrong data, causing the fall of two such aircraft in just five months, and led to the shutdown of these navigation systems and aircraft operating until the detection of the defect . Something similar, but on a much smaller scale, occurred with ground-based navigation and self-driving systems, which in some cases turned out not to work well, killing some drivers and pedestrians.
Suicide in front of cameras
In the last decade, YouTube-recorded videos, as well as front-facing mobile phone cameras for selfies, have played a major role in the emergence of suicide in front of cameras, violence or even murder in front of cameras. , Motivated to achieve individual satisfaction. More than 300 suicides, violent incidents and killings of organisms, destruction of the environment, destruction of art and destruction of art have been reported since the introduction of smart-phone selfie cameras in 2010.
Physical attrition
The scene has seen the emergence of practices by some technology and telecommunications companies aimed at physically depleting users, including the use of techniques «choke lines subscribers» at certain times, or as determined by these companies.
Attrition included some new business models in the area of paid content subscription, where new technologies for live streaming of video and games, such as «Netflix», «Apple Arcade» and others, fragmentation of content, through the diversity and multiplicity of services, which eventually led to The user pays several times as he pays once.
Attacking utilities
Cyber attacks have developed into a serious threat to public utility networks - electricity, water, gas, communications, transportation, and more - most notably the 2015 attack on part of the US power grid.
Over the past 10 years, we have witnessed a real breakthrough in privacy infringement technologies from the proliferation of camera-based surveillance and monitoring systems, to tracking millions of data across different information networks, and then entering artificial intelligence into the privacy world, via face recognition systems and intelligent digital voice aids.
Most major technology companies have not been spared from data breaches, leaks and sales in black or "dark" online forums and markets. The breaches included prominent names including Yahoo, Adobe, Sony, LinkedIn and LinkedIn. Facebook »and others, putting the interests and safety of millions of people around the world at risk.
Means of communication
A survey by cnet.com analysts confirmed that over the past decade, social media has made it possible to spread hatred at an unprecedented rate and has been used to glorify and incite violence. Now when people talk about the hate-filled side of the Internet, They often talk about social media, which is quickly emerging and spreading the worst among people, so that anyone is likely to find themselves in the line of intense hatred of others with no objective justification, because of a 240-character tweet or video that has been deeply falsified, and has become Such practices sometimes cover the positive side of Lo Means of communication as an open space for freedom of expression.
Cyber attacks are a serious threat to infrastructure.