When looking forward into the future, things won't always go as predicted. But what is certain, people will continue to rely on automations and computers, more than ever before.
One of which, is people relying on robots.
According to Elon Musk, the serial entrepreneur, in the future, robots can be made to do "dangerous, repetitive, and boring tasks" so humans don't have to.
Spying and surveillance no longer require close encounter nor situations that involve physical presence. In the world where people are connected to the internet, and can be online almost anywhere in the world, all those people are literally informants.
With their mobile devices that they have, information can be tapped and secretly analyzed by people half way across the globe.
And one of the most notorious and full of controversial company that does this, is the NSO Group.
For years, people on the web and beyond use Wikipedia as reference to what they are looking for. Wikipedia has no shortage of information, even when that information has just happened.
The online encyclopedia is so influential and "trusted" as an external repository of knowledge, that even Google relies heavily on it.
Whenever someone uses its search engine to search for something, and whenever Wikipedia has an article for it, Google will put Wikipedia far on top of most others in its search engine results pages.
For more than several times if not plenty, technology and internet businesses have been tied to political campaigns and some government affairs.
Because of various reasons, almost everyone owns a piece of technological device, whether it's a PC, a laptop, or a tablet, or a smartphone.
In the modern era of information and technology, things have been digitized for convenience. However, the ecosystem is only controlled by a handful of companies.
An opinion from one person may differ from another opinion from a different person. But what is certain, everyone knows that Apple the tech giant, is up there in the food chain for a multitude of reasons.
One of which, is by selling hardware.
Apple is the tech company towering almost anything else in the business. And this is also why the company is no stranger to scrutiny.
One of the reasons, is because Apple maintains a walled-garden, where everything must abide to its policy, or else. And CEO Tim Cook who sits at the helm, said that everything Apple does, is for the sake of its users.
The world is big. With so many continents having so many countries with a lot of cities, each of them are unique. The people, the culture, the food, the landmarks, and even the air, can different from one place to another.
To many people, travelling is among the things they must do, in order to live their life to the fullest. Not to only satisfy their hunger for adventures, but to also see the world in an another perspective, broadening their knowledge, and expanding their experience.
Apple is not everyone's friend. The tech titan has given a lot of headaches to developers and businesses that rely on it for survival, and there is nothing much most can do to stop Apple.
But on the other side, Apple is not seen as the beast that is feared or tamed. Some see Apple not as their enemy that has to be stopped or destroyed. Apple can actually be something to rely on, helping businesses to actually survive, live, thrive, and continue to evolve.
And Snapchat's company Snap is one of them.
Apple has long been praised for having developed operating systems that are more secured and polished than others in the competition.
After all, Apple has been developing its own operating systems longer than most, and has a stricter stance than almost everyone else when dealing with what should or shouldn't be on its platforms.
But Apple's Craig Federighi suggested that people are getting it wrong.
China, the land of the East, has strict rules that should be followed by all foreign companies willing to conduct business within its borders.
And Apple is one of the lucky ones, after it is finally willing to store the personal data of Chinese customers inside servers run by state-owned a Chinese company.
The Apple data center in Guiyang should translate to profitable business for Apple, knowing that China is considered the largest market in the East.
But in a privacy perspective, not so much.