Seoul Shout-Out from Time

Time Magazine has an article on time.com about Seoul's uber-wired society. Some of the stuff they're doing is incredibly advanced.

Now, I'm no conspiracy theorist, but I do love the future dystopia novels. With that background, it seems that, while impressive, everything the government in Korea is using their technological prowess on is basically keeping track of people.

Of course, the monitoring has other purposes on the surface, but it is all based around monitoring someone's activities.

The article hit the nail on the head when -- while I was thinking about "Big Brother" -- it mentioned him by name.

According to the article:

'To some Americans, the Big Brother--ish qualities of the U-city push can be a tad unnerving. But Seoul officials point out that the U-safety-zone project is entirely voluntary, and the technologically sophisticated citizens seem to have few objections.'

Now, this is the point where I make a joke about them having few objections to being constantly monitored because of their lack of independent thinking and that living at home with mom and dad into their 30s stunts their mental maturity ... but I won't do that (Whoops!).

Anyway, the Internet is nearly ubiquitous in this country, and certainly is so in the northwest corner of the country. Other countries could probably take a look at how the Internet works here and find some smart moves to copy.

Check out the full story here.