Mobilephoning
What if the Caller ID funtion on your phone also showed where the caller is located? I imagine the Jaiku’s and Plazer’s of this world are probably working on something like this, but I want it now.
The call already answers the Who (Caller ID), When (now or past timestamp), Why (contextual) and the What (the call itself). All we’re missing is the Where.
It’s dead easy for the operators to figure out from the location of their cells. If there’s enough resolution, they should give us the streetname or neighbourhood; if not, city or at worst country. It’s only a few bits to send along with the GSM packets.
A pity they’d charge us an extra €9.99 per month for the privilege of sending this data.
Why not also add in what the caller´s current thoughts are, and his next five precognitized future actions?
Heh… CallerINTENTIONS :)
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great idea, and Im sure well see something like that pretty soon, with all the GPS-enabled gadgets out there. Have you noticed that a lot of times, when answering a call, we ask Where are you (sorry, for some strange reason, I cant digit some punctuation marks, using NetnewsWire now, will try later through Firefox). I love Ricks idea as well, who knows, one day, with brain wave scanning,…. ;-)
I’m all for mind-reading telephones.