From: William (williamweb@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Nov 27 2002 - 18:57:01 MST
> Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 10:18:06 -0500
> From: Michael Wiik <mwiik@messagenet.com>
> Subject: witness phone
>
> I'm thinking this would be a bottom-up transparent society type thing.
>
> Basically, a cellphone with built-in camera, GPS system, some sort of
> compass and mercury switch arrangement (or whatever, I'm not a
> mechanical engineer) to measure direction and elevation. Time would be
> handled via regular sync signals over the cellphone. GPS coordinates,
> direction, timestamp, zoomfactor, etc are printed to the digital images.
> Perhaps a microphone allowing recorded comments to be attached to images.
>
> The phone would handle SMS and paging functions, and web access. One
> might subscribe to location-specific blog feeds and specify paging
> functions to be activated based on nearness to GPS specific blog
> entries, as in, maybe a one-block radius around your current location.
> Completely configurable, one might subscribe to blogs reporting various
> events in the vicinity (a crime in progress, an arrest, a motorcade,
> etc) and thus be alerted to possible witnessable occurances.
>
> It seems cellphones today are approaching this. What happens next?
>
> Thanks,
> -Mike
> - --
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> Michael Wiik
> Principal
> Messagenet Communications Research
> http://messagenet.com
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The Sprint Vision phone is available now and the Microsft Smartphone 2002 is
apparently available now
in some of Europe and will be introduced in the US early next year. As these
video-camera phones
prolierate, the societal effects will simply happen automatically. That is
what "happens next". Stay tuned.
Quite literally. Maybe we can start a Transhuman or Extropy Wireless
Community Group -- this is the
likely result. I think there is a book called Smart_Mobs talking about
wireless communities as an
emergent phenomena. The author is mainly optimistic but chose the title as
a warning I guess or a catchy
phrase that is more marketable or both. - Bill williamweb@hotmailcom
Note: Feel free to post to me and the list both since I don't often read
every Extropy Digest posting and I
don't want to miss any direct feedback -whether it be positive or negative.
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