hmmm? Wow! "still making a phone call?" That is the most obtuse statement I've ever heard. That's like saying the change between the wall mounted cranker that took you to a switchboard operator is no different than a the cordless phone is no different than the mobile phone. Each of these had huge social and economic impacts, as well as behavioral changes in the way we perceive communications and our connections virtually vs. physically with the environment around us.
Dudes! its time to open up your sci-fi books and movies (I prefer movies) and start seeing nano-technologies' effect on the future. These fictional conceptions turn out not to be very conceptual any longer. Embedded is one take. But people are designing today homes using macro-nanotechnologies where architectures shift based on ambient conditions. ARCHITECTURES! Expand that to entire environments. And the self-powering/charging natures of these devices makes them even more wondrous. How we change our relationship to technology at the personal level effects how we engage it at the social level. This has been happening throughout history. Nanotechnologies once matured and cheap enough will radically change the very nature of human relationship to technology. "still talking on the phone" ... HAH!!! What a stupid statement if I ever heard one. A case where wired is just being well obtuse! -- dave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=26576 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
