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Traces Of Events
Ambient traces of travel from someone who travels a lot, or at least travels on airlines and to destinations where security stickers are commonly used.
In our perfect future we can accurately track everything - the exact location, temperature, who and what is in proximity for how long, the information that was exchanged - every last minute detail. Some of this data could help ensure that your luggage arrives in tip-top condition, in the right place and on time. Or not. You land in a new country and immigration doesn't only check your luggage, it checks the history of your luggage.
It's 2012- your luggage in the hold of the plane and can communicate with the other luggage. What would they say to one another? Would they even speak the same language?
Writing from Hove | February 5, 2006 | Permalink
Comments
I like how most of our ideas of have been around for quite some time. Of course, in the future world you can know where your meat comes from, oh wait, we are doing that now in Brazil . . . or where your package came from ala American Express. The travel one is a concept out Joy Mountfords Human Interface group at Apple circa 1993. I'm sure PARC would say they stole it from them, likely Alan Kay's idea. I figure if technologists continue to tell themselves the same stories, eventually they will become self fullfiling prophecies. Of course, the prophets, unlike times of old warning the people of the future, now tell stories of gold and wealth and goodness, at least for companies, who are after all paying for the crystal ball gazing. There is a difference though between looking and brainstorming and looking and reflecting and then coming up with something. I've no time for blogs, but this one used to be the later
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Posted by: ken at February 5, 2006 10:51 PM
There is a difference between what is here now and what will come. The range of situations from where data can be collected, the granularity of that data and who has the right to access what is generated.
> I like how most of our ideas of have been around for quite some time.
Most? Show me an original thought - I don't see any on this site. Or meaningful analysis. Why is that?
Hei Ken, I have no time for blogs either. But y'know, thanks for dropping by.
Posted by: Jan at February 6, 2006 4:15 AM
I don't have time for blogs either. Yet, I find that stating this on someone's blog makes me feel extremely arrogant, somewhat unlikeable and generally foolish.
Posted by: Kim Pierro at February 6, 2006 5:38 PM
It seems like no one has time for blog these days. But like many others, I still manage to check Future Perfect - and probably only 2 other blogs - regularly.
By the way, I'm writing from Brazil and I haven't seen any "traced meat" at my local supermarket. Yet.
Posted by: Daniel Alenquer at February 6, 2006 7:01 PM