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March 07, 2005
readings for March 8th
I like it is some ways, just more as a data collection system more then a system to track what my child is doing for restrictive reasons. When I was 3 years old, though, I walk out the door of the back yard and just started walking and walking and walking. about two hour later my father who had beeen called home from work to find me was driving back home when he spotted me happily walking down the highway. i was happy and without a worry but my mother was freaked out and so was my father. this would have been a great moment to have a way to locate me.
What comes to mind, though is the worry about privacy...but is that such a reason to bring a halt to everything that may be useful. But be the product is for children, pet, or elderly this has it moments when it is useful and those moments are worth more then all the fears.
When I looked at this I think of PlaceLabs a Intel intiative. This is a great idea it is a wondeful use of an infrastructure which exists to give people more then was expected. what is intersting is to use these system to follow road networks for example and track buses a and routine movement is a cheap and efficient way. Here 802.11 is used but there are many systems which are used to do the same thing today. cell towers, and even radio and tv tower have been know to be used for location based information.
Posted by dimitri at March 7, 2005 09:56 PM