find out where you are (and where everybody else is)

[gh]

long read on location-aware apps from Wired. Some spooky stuff in there!


http://www.wired.com/gadgets/wireless/m ... ntPage=all

[lonewolf]

A little too much togetherness for me. Who volunteers to have their every movement tracked?

[Vault-emort]

They can use this to find Oh-u.. (and others) who aren't where they told the testers they are going to be.

[Marlow]

A little too much togetherness for me. Who volunteers to have their every movement tracked?

Me. After just one week, they'd be bored to tears and give up on the whole idea.

[skiboo]

The world is changing so quickly I'm not sure I belong in it anymore.

[Marlow]

The world is changing so quickly I'm not sure I belong in it anymore.

To be, or not to be--that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous technology
Or to take arms against a sea of glitches
And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep--
No more--and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache, and the thousand natural invasions of privacy
That gadgets are heir to. 'Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep--
To sleep--perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub,
For in that sleep of death what youtube videos may come
When we have forsaken our cell phones and blackberries,
Must give us pause.

[lonewolf]

The world is changing so quickly I'm not sure I belong in it anymore.

Yep, Once I was confident I was in the Silent Majority. Nowadays it seems that more and more I am in the Ignored Minority.

[AthleticsInBritain]

The world is changing so quickly I'm not sure I belong in it anymore.

To be, or not to be--that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous technology
Or to take arms against a sea of glitches
And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep--
No more--and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache, and the thousand natural invasions of privacy
That gadgets are heir to. 'Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep--
To sleep--perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub,
For in that sleep of death what youtube videos may come
When we have forsaken our cell phones and blackberries,
Must give us pause.

I sympathise. Especially when all the modern tech doesn't do what it's supposed to and makes life more complicated. A 21st century luddite? Sometimes I wanna run off and join an Amish community. As long as I can still watch the Zurich GP of course.

(PS I like the butchering of the bard Marlow - where'd that come from?)

[skiboo]

lonewolf and AIB, "they" will want to insert a chip in us sometime soon. No, not Matt Marriott here, though I do believe it is coming.

[lonewolf]

i don't know where "they" propose to insert whatever that is but I don't like the looks of it.

[AthleticsInBritain]

It's ok skiboo, I've already got my tinfoil hat!

[Marlow]

(PS I like the butchering of the bard Marlow - where'd that come from?)

The fetid fen that is my mind.