Comments on: Can We Handle the Present? http://www.blindside.org.uk/2007/07/18/can-we-handle-the-present/ What's going to go wrong in our e-enabled world? Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:20:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Subjectivity » Social Fizzics http://www.blindside.org.uk/2007/07/18/can-we-handle-the-present/#comment-610 Subjectivity » Social Fizzics Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:32:45 +0000 http://www.blindside.org.uk/2007/07/18/can-we-handle-the-present/#comment-610 [...] I learned that this idea has recently graduated from bon mot to research program. Tom Fuller asks: We’ve been thinking a bit about the future, but I’d like to know how UK information and [...] […] I learned that this idea has recently graduated from bon mot to research program. Tom Fuller asks: We’ve been thinking a bit about the future, but I’d like to know how UK information and […]

]]> By: wendyg http://www.blindside.org.uk/2007/07/18/can-we-handle-the-present/#comment-596 wendyg Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:05:42 +0000 http://www.blindside.org.uk/2007/07/18/can-we-handle-the-present/#comment-596 I see that in the 24 hours it took me to finish my post you'd already started the same thread. Ooops. wg I see that in the 24 hours it took me to finish my post you’d already started the same thread.

Ooops.

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]]> By: Sam http://www.blindside.org.uk/2007/07/18/can-we-handle-the-present/#comment-587 Sam Wed, 18 Jul 2007 09:24:24 +0000 http://www.blindside.org.uk/2007/07/18/can-we-handle-the-present/#comment-587 The small groups of interests in any of the above are already doing this. Look at how many photos the BBC got of the recent floods for example. The activists are already wandering round with digital cameras and camera phones - they're the people with the most to gain so are the early adopters. Banking on a mobile phone probably wouldn't change much - we already have internet banking and we'd just use the same sites. If you're talking about paying for things, that infrastructure would take a while to be put in place. However, the impact of every point of sale terminal in the country being outfitted with bluetooth to communicate with other devices would be very significant in a reasonable timeframe after it was wide enough and standardised enough for it to be useful. Not because it's an easier way of doing what we do already, but becuse of what else could be possible as a result that is currently impractical (do you have a list of everything you buy?). Nothing springs up overnight if it's infrastructure, and even facebook has taken 9 months to become everywhere. The small groups of interests in any of the above are already doing this. Look at how many photos the BBC got of the recent floods for example. The activists are already wandering round with digital cameras and camera phones - they’re the people with the most to gain so are the early adopters.

Banking on a mobile phone probably wouldn’t change much - we already have internet banking and we’d just use the same sites. If you’re talking about paying for things, that infrastructure would take a while to be put in place.
However, the impact of every point of sale terminal in the country being outfitted with bluetooth to communicate with other devices would be very significant in a reasonable timeframe after it was wide enough and standardised enough for it to be useful. Not because it’s an easier way of doing what we do already, but becuse of what else could be possible as a result that is currently impractical (do you have a list of everything you buy?).

Nothing springs up overnight if it’s infrastructure, and even facebook has taken 9 months to become everywhere.

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