Check out this month's Scientific American series of feature
articles on the MIT Oxygen Project
(http://www.sciam.com/featarch.html). It's not about GIS
specifically, but one example they mention (in Talking to Your
Computer) is asking your "communication chameleon" the question
"Where is the MIT museum?"
It's not hard to imagine a more involved GIS use of these
portable devices that look like cell phones, have no keyboard,
sport a little graphics display, and are completely voice
enabled. They can read your PIM data, tie in to the web (and read
you web pages), draw data from various sources, both internet,
intranet and extranet, and answer questions like. "Send my banker
a list of comparables to the house where I am now, and show me
what this place is worth." (It could "tell" you but since you are
standing there with the broker, you want it to keep its little
mouth shut, and just display the number.)
This is a very inspiring series if you want to see where one
aspect of computing (and GIS) is going. It reaffirms an old
belief I've always had that the GIS paradigm is more based in
spatial data, with graphics being a secondary concern.
- Bill Thoen
Robert Crossley wrote:
>
> I have to do a paper on "Future of GIS products" next week. I have a
> number of ideas, as well as a fair amount of navel gazing articles, but
> would be interested if anyone has a particular slant that they would care
> to share or if anyone has seen any articles that have inspired them
> recently.
>
> Thanks
>
> Robert.
>
> Robert Crossley
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