On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Brad Beveridge wrote: > Bring on the directed advertising > "Hello there citizen, I see you are wearing ..Benetton.. ..pants.. - we > sell a complimentary product that you may find interesting..." > Just like Minority Report.
What's futuristic about this? We there already. Anything from Kathmandu here in ChCh has a nifty little detector tag sewn into (of all ruddy places) the collar. I find this uncomfortable, so I remove 'em. So what will happen if I go shopping again at That Man Can Do and they decide I'm shoplifting the jacket I bought a month or three back? Oooh! Looky, he's cut the shoplifting detection tag off!! Guilty! Guilty! Guantanamo Bay for him! John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Zealand John's law :- All advances in computing have arisen through the creation of an additional level of indirection, the trick is to work out which indirection is actually useful.
