Isn't micropayment the type of system to which one of the internet carriers is trying to convert: pay per kilobyte of info downloaded?
I wonder if what Alcia suggested would work something like that: not pay per minute, perhaps, but per bit/byte of info. You could set up something like Netflicks but with text: download so much content for a fixed amount per month from a database of texts. Some premium content (King, Rowling, and such) would cost more. Janice On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Eric Scoles <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Or that's how I feel about it. In all likelihood, micropayment will creep > up on us by inches and we won't realize we've got it. Early indicators are > the use of wireless payment for gas and tolls, and RFID-equpped credit cards > that you just need to wave at a reader. (Everyone has them in Europe. The > clerks sometimes get flustered dealing with Americans for that reason -- > they have to take special steps they don't have to with Europeans. They must > think of us as technological bumpkins.) Fast food drive-throughs will be > next. It will start on the Thruway and use EasyPass. (On Tuesday, October > 30*, 2009. And the dipole transmitters will be painted mauve.) > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
