On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 11:45:23AM +1000, James Cameron wrote:
On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 07:08:46PM -0600, Charles Cossé wrote:Motivation: I've discovered that using internet access as a currency results in effective learning.This will benefit inattentive or time-poor parents who would rather use hardware and software to control their children's social behaviours. Attentive or time-rich parents will be sufficiently involved in their children that they can exert control socially, and won't need paid service.
In the limit, yes, but a lot of parents are in between the time-poor and time-rich extremes you mention; they may often have to prioritise what they devote their attention to or exercise control over. Also, a third credit-earning category of "build up enough credit and the internet becomes accessible [until parents say it's time to stop / dinner / etc.]" maps almost exactly to your "do your homework before you play on the internet" use case, and strikes a different balance between parental and automated supervision.
So your best bet will be to target this service at inattentive and time-poor parents. But only those parents living in houses sufficiently spread apart that WiFi can be controlled. Remote, rural, and suburban.
WiFi in urban areas is often not very open, so even in many urban areas this WiFi-metering can be effective.
And only those parents who can recognise when an uncontrolled WiFi access point appears; like a prepaid phone hotspot loaned by a friend.
True, but that's probably part of a "threat model" most parents/buyers would understand to be not covered by their internet-metering service.
-Charles-- James Cameron http://quozl.netrek.org/
Martin
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