Enslaved By Technology By Reuben Abati THERE is an emergent generation of Nigerians that is enslaved by technology. It is an interesting form of colonialism in which the colonized willingly submits himself or herself to the imperialist. I see the evidence daily each time I open my e-mail box or go to the internet. It is called the new media, this superior reign of all forms of electronic gadgets which has redefined the way we live and our notions of freedom, rights and citizenship. I had once tried to reflect on the subject in two previous pieces, one in which I wondered about how we ever managed to live without the GSM cell phone, which now dominates our lives, and two, another piece in which I protested about the totalitarian nature of the cell phone, and how it could be such a menacing tool of social terror. But in those two pieces, I probably underestimated the extent of the new media and its ...
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