It’s all about the snippets that I get from these things. Here’s todays:
RFID–placing physical tags could mean tagging, cataloging environments [we've been talking about this quite a bit at UR but only for surveillance, inventory measures, circulation in the library.]
why are we [as a nationa] behind in mobile devices (behind europe, etc.) size, network size–very complex. Japan, mobile devices as an answer to less laptops (we have more machines in US). Momentum problems–in UK it was cheaper to text than to call. Africa had bad land lines, cheaper and easier with cell phones.
wimax, standard for wifi, longer range for miles, leaves are a problem, so we may not see this work locally.
Mobile devices as media capture tools–americans do not know how or what to do with it. during london underground bombings, UK citizens photo’d and sent images directly to BBC. CNN doesn’t have that counterpart that works easily.
John schott–media prof. at carleton with mobile classroom
Mobile technologies to generate interviews, quick information–pick up your class and go with GIPSY project, amsterdam
students in academia have access to the world, but K-12 are increasingly filtered on their content. parents fear the internet.
privacy as a concept that isn’t there anymore, we need to learn from our students who already live in a world with breakdowns of privacy (drunken pics from tijuana.)
swarming–military strategies change, armies with mobile devices do not need to follow one another, people can disperse and swarm. WTO protestors in Seattle would fan out and identify where the police were not, they led the police around their city.
Yellow arrow project, hyperlinking the world. in DC and New York.
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