From: Pat Fallon (pfallon@ptd.net)
Date: Mon Feb 01 1999 - 11:16:23 MST
hurburgh wrote:
> Anybody out there in extropy-land who is following R&D
> breakthroughs
> on WWVs?
>
> They have got to be the ultimate communications device
> particularly if
> we can get them down to gnat-size.
>
> Bandwidth is the obvious constraint at the moment but
> somewhere
> between satellite LEOS (v2.001k), cels G3 and perhaps the
> next generation of GSM we must be getting close.
>
> When brainstorming some possible applications I got :-
>
> - great bootleg concert webcasts
>
> - the ultimate "wish you were here" realtime digital
> postcard
>
> - great personal security & deterrent device
> " Patch me thru to McGarret! ... Book Him Danno" &
> if your server is down , get a digital mugshot (the Web's Most
> Wanted?)
>
> - we could all be special correspondents for CNN - no
> thanks !
>
> - & now for the nice stuff perhaps share your
> precious moments ( mountain top sunrises?) with loved-ones
> &/or the world
>
> And for those really mega-events (perhaps the dawn of the
> new-millennium somewhere near the DateLine in a Pacific
> paradise) a good proportion of
> the populace could come close to a feeling of being part of
> that often
> dreamt about, ultimate good-vibe of universal
> consciousness.
>
> I'd love to get some dialog going on WWVs and where they
> may take us.
>
> sgd
> david
>
> hurburgh@vic.bigpond.net.au
I'd like a wearable one that I could activate on demand if the
authorities or some other thugs pull me over or confront me. That
would presuppose an uplink to some service that would monitor and
record these events for possible legal/security interaction.
Thousands of Rodney Kings.
Pat Fallon
pfallon@bigfoot.com
http://www.mmsweb.com/eykiw
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