ed phillips on 8 Mar 2001 22:54:47 -0000 |
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[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> imho, another bad idea. |
It makes no difference wether I want it or you think it is "imho a bad idea". If it is attractive to enough other people, it will invade your urban experience. Please give the culture critic an aspirin. ed Bill Spornitz wrote: > People who plan for the electric future must have no real lives in > the present. Either that, or they never quite got over those > fantastic images of communication devices they were exposed to in > their formative years. But somehow, they can't quite remember the > good things these devices did and can only come up with bad, stupid > and useless things. If my cellphone rang, beeped, whistled or farted > a message that there were tables available in some restaurant I > passed, I would throw it at the nearest hard surface. No - I'd > probably throw it at the restaurant. > > Please, somebody give these print journalists another drink and put > them to bed... ;-> > > b > > ps - is there anybody out there for whom these *services* would be useful? > > > > >from edupage > >http://www.educause.edu/pub/edupage/edupage.html > > > > > >USE OF LOCATION DEVICES RISES, PROMPTING PRIVACY CONCERNS > >Location-based services could be the next big thing in the > >wireless communications industry. International Data values the > >segment at nearly $600 million today and projects that it will > >soar to $5 billion over the course of the next three years. > >Companies see enormous commercial potential in installing > >wireless location systems in vehicles, handheld computers, cell > >phones, and even watchbands. Restaurants hope to use the > >technology to alert cell phone users when they approach that there > >are available tables; stores plan to alert cell phone users of > >sales; and hotels want to inform people that they have vacancies. > >A company in Florida wants to use the technology to help parents > >keep track of their children. Some researchers are ready to > >imbed the technology, in the form of a chip, beneath the skin. > >The federal government has played a major role in the development > >of wireless tracking technology. The federal government wants to > >use the technology to make it easier for local authorities to > >determine the precise location of emergency 911 calls. > >(New York Times, 4 March 2001) > > > >----- End forwarded message ----- > > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission > # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets > # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body > # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold