From: Michael Wiik (mwiik@messagenet.com)
Date: Tue Nov 26 2002 - 08:18:06 MST
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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