Re: [NetBehaviour] Internet of Things....Research Opportunities onEPSRC funded Project]
shop, store and share products. The analogue bar code that has for so long been a dumb encrypted reference to a shopâs inventory system, will be superseded by an open platform in which every object manufactured will be able to be tracked from cradle to grave, through manufacturer to distributor, to potentially every single person who comes into contact great! more surveillance! with it following its purchase. Further still, every object that comes close to another object, and is within range of a reader, could also be logged on a database and used to find correlations between owners and applications. In a world that has relied upon a linear chain of supply and demand between manufacturer and consumer via high street shop, the Internet of Things has the potential to transform how we will treat objects, care about their origin and use them to find other objects. If every new object is within reach of a reader, everything is searchable and findable, subsequently the shopping experience may never be the great! even more surveillance! same, and the concept of throwing away objects may become a thing of the past as other people find new uses for old things. Wow man, I'm glad all these technical boffins come up with such fantastic ideas... Just a pity the Wombles[1] beat them to it. [1] http://www.tidybag.co.uk/ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Internet of Things....Research Opportunities onEPSRC funded Project]
Yes james! Madame Cholet and Orinoco would make ideal research candidates. :) R -Original Message- From: james morris ja...@jwm-art.net Reply-To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org To: netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Internet of ThingsResearch Opportunities onEPSRC funded Project] Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:15:22 +0100 (BST) shop, store and share products. The analogue bar code that has for so long been a dumb encrypted reference to a shop’s inventory system, will be superseded by an open platform in which every object manufactured will be able to be tracked from cradle to grave, through manufacturer to distributor, to potentially every single person who comes into contact great! more surveillance! with it following its purchase. Further still, every object that comes close to another object, and is within range of a reader, could also be logged on a database and used to find correlations between owners and applications. In a world that has relied upon a linear chain of supply and demand between manufacturer and consumer via high street shop, the Internet of Things has the potential to transform how we will treat objects, care about their origin and use them to find other objects. If every new object is within reach of a reader, everything is searchable and findable, subsequently the shopping experience may never be the great! even more surveillance! same, and the concept of throwing away objects may become a thing of the past as other people find new uses for old things. Wow man, I'm glad all these technical boffins come up with such fantastic ideas... Just a pity the Wombles[1] beat them to it. [1] http://www.tidybag.co.uk/ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Internet of Things....Research Opportunities onEPSRC funded Project]
I don't usually worry much about surveillance. My life's more or less an open book but this story scares me a bit. I can just imagine a group of Apple employees, huddled around a bunch of screens with a million red dots moving around on a Google map of the world: http://happywaffle.livejournal.com/5890.html Pall On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 10:15 PM, james morrisja...@jwm-art.net wrote: shop, store and share products. The analogue bar code that has for so long been a dumb encrypted reference to a shop’s inventory system, will be superseded by an open platform in which every object manufactured will be able to be tracked from cradle to grave, through manufacturer to distributor, to potentially every single person who comes into contact great! more surveillance! with it following its purchase. Further still, every object that comes close to another object, and is within range of a reader, could also be logged on a database and used to find correlations between owners and applications. In a world that has relied upon a linear chain of supply and demand between manufacturer and consumer via high street shop, the Internet of Things has the potential to transform how we will treat objects, care about their origin and use them to find other objects. If every new object is within reach of a reader, everything is searchable and findable, subsequently the shopping experience may never be the great! even more surveillance! same, and the concept of throwing away objects may become a thing of the past as other people find new uses for old things. Wow man, I'm glad all these technical boffins come up with such fantastic ideas... Just a pity the Wombles[1] beat them to it. [1] http://www.tidybag.co.uk/ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour -- * Pall Thayer artist http://www.this.is/pallit * ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
