MizzleTizzle
12-21-2003, 08:39 AM
Picked up todays NY Times; another `science teacher prediction' is coming true. In 1992 and a few years after, I told my students they'd be banned from using phones in school. They were like, `Phones?!' Almost none of them had a phone. Some beepers were showing up in school, but.
Anyway, I also told them there would be a time where the technology would exist that would change just about everything: You would be able to be located, where you are in 3-D Physical space, at any moment, by almost anyone. These `predictions' were nothing of the kind, just extending the line of existing tech to it's Nth degree; like GPS.
From The Article:
On the train returning to Armonk, N.Y., from a recent shopping trip in Manhattan with her friends, Britney Lutz, 15, had the odd sensation that her father was watching her.
He very well could have been. Ms. Lutz's father, Kerry, recently equipped his daughters with cellular phones that let him see where they are on a computer map at any given moment.
Earlier that day, he had tracked Britney as she arrived in Grand Central Terminal. Later, calling up the map on his own cellphone screen, he noticed she was in SoHo.
.personal location devices are beginning to catch on, largely because cellular phones are increasingly coming with a built-in tether. A federal mandate that wireless carriers be able to locate callers who dial 911 automatically by late 2005 means that millions of phones already keep track of their owners' whereabouts.
Analysts predict that as many as 42 million Americans will be using some form of "location-aware" technology in 2005.
Until recently, one of the main civilian uses of G.P.S. was in devices issued by the criminal justice system to track offenders as a condition of their parole or probation. The new generation of tracking devices has moved well beyond that population and now takes many forms, from plastic bracelets that can be locked onto children to small boxes with tiny antennae that can be placed unobtrusively in cars.
"We are moving into a world where your location is going to be known at all times by some electronic device," said Larry Smarr, director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology. "It's inevitable. So we should be talking about its consequences before it's too late."
Full Article (http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/21/technology/21WATC.html?ex=1072587600&en=86b03b0a5e51b6ad&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE)
Great GPS Article (http://www.thegpsstore.net/learngps.asp)
Anyway, I also told them there would be a time where the technology would exist that would change just about everything: You would be able to be located, where you are in 3-D Physical space, at any moment, by almost anyone. These `predictions' were nothing of the kind, just extending the line of existing tech to it's Nth degree; like GPS.
From The Article:
On the train returning to Armonk, N.Y., from a recent shopping trip in Manhattan with her friends, Britney Lutz, 15, had the odd sensation that her father was watching her.
He very well could have been. Ms. Lutz's father, Kerry, recently equipped his daughters with cellular phones that let him see where they are on a computer map at any given moment.
Earlier that day, he had tracked Britney as she arrived in Grand Central Terminal. Later, calling up the map on his own cellphone screen, he noticed she was in SoHo.
.personal location devices are beginning to catch on, largely because cellular phones are increasingly coming with a built-in tether. A federal mandate that wireless carriers be able to locate callers who dial 911 automatically by late 2005 means that millions of phones already keep track of their owners' whereabouts.
Analysts predict that as many as 42 million Americans will be using some form of "location-aware" technology in 2005.
Until recently, one of the main civilian uses of G.P.S. was in devices issued by the criminal justice system to track offenders as a condition of their parole or probation. The new generation of tracking devices has moved well beyond that population and now takes many forms, from plastic bracelets that can be locked onto children to small boxes with tiny antennae that can be placed unobtrusively in cars.
"We are moving into a world where your location is going to be known at all times by some electronic device," said Larry Smarr, director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology. "It's inevitable. So we should be talking about its consequences before it's too late."
Full Article (http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/21/technology/21WATC.html?ex=1072587600&en=86b03b0a5e51b6ad&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE)
Great GPS Article (http://www.thegpsstore.net/learngps.asp)