Communications technologies are taken for granted and used fully by governments, nonprofit organizations (both licensed and non-licensed), “terrorists,” mom and pop groups, religious groups, all types of “radicals,” and the world’s most powerful organizations. Is that scary or good? Who defines “terrorists” and “radicals?” You and me and them! Each with our own mix of heredity, environment, media exposure and day to day experience.

GPS is empowering but it can also result in people knowing where you and I are who maybe we do not want to know that information. Web cams on laptops and smartphones are ubiquitous can capture everything we do anywhere.

These types of technologies and communications tools are asymmetrical. You become known to the unknown. Someone is watching us, and very likely we cannot or are not watching them. What will “they” do with that information?

Asymmetrical technologies create fear, advancement, and creativity not imagined before. It is a cloud culture!

What about observing the observers? Does anyone do this? Together or alone? What can be gained from this collaboration of one with more? What if they are wrong in their conclusions of what they watch, or are they wrong? Do we want to be connected or observed? Is it wimpy for us to ask all these questions?

It’s like a laizze faire approach to education. Does asymmetrial get the same results as symmetrical in the end? And what is the end? How do we define that?

Throw the pieces out there and let’s see what happens? We already are in the middle of this with every online social network we are a part of.