25. Conquering the Last Frontier in the Digital Invasion: The Home Front

As digital technology conquers new territory and there is ubiquitous use of technology, the last frontier has fallen in the digital invasion and the digital activity hub has come home. It is almost a paradox that as more technological activities have come home to make the lives of millions of people easier and more enjoyable, the threat to their core personal security is directly under attack. Since the early 1950s as digital technology become pervious, the main activity and locus of technological activities invaded the workplace first as the need for improvement in production become paramount. Millions of people took on the task of learning the new technologies as a way to prevent job losses as these new technologies entered the workplace to improve production and hence improve profitability. There were cries of “computers invading the workplace and eating jobs.” After a while, we all got used to these new invaders and we became comfortable to work with the job skills they provided. Production skyrocketed and new jobs were created as old olds disappeared and the fear of job losses was overcome and confidence increased among young workers as they entered the workplace with ever-increasing new skills promising enormous fortunes. We saw new technology giants springing up every other day and making millions. With little fanfare and unknowingly, we become members of social networks as we linked up with colleagues and relatives and a million other people we never and we will never know.