SPIMEs

Paraphrasing an interesting article in Campaign by Faris Yakob at Naked NY. Interesting futurology stuff:

A SPIME is a term coined by Sci-Fi author Bruce Sterling to describe a device that knows where it is in space and time. The iPhone is a Spime.

It is exciting for a number of reasons, first and most mundanely it allows location based marketing - offers based on where and when you are and where you point your phone...

More importantly it helps us know where the 'human swarm' is at all times, and increasingly what they are doing.

Combine a SPIME an RFID tag and what you essentially get is a mouse that can click on physical stuff. We will have an internet of 'physical things'. all the intelligence on the web searchable by pointing at physical stuff.

http://www.geovector.com/

Because mobile phones are always on, the old offline / online divide - makes no more sense.

Now imagine all that and take away the phone, the display appears in glasses and you control the data stream by gesticulation. Sounds Great!