Privacy raises its ugly head and stomps progress once again. I was just reminded that when you walk near someone that is listening to the radio you can ACTUALLY HEAR WHAT THEY ARE LISTENING TOO! Can you believe the amazing infringement of personal space that someone might be able to actually hear what you are hearing, at the same time, you are hearing it.
Wow, what if you actually both like what you are listening to and break into DANCE!
I know its far fetched but imagine the concerns when radio and radio waves where first invented.
Today, we still worry about privacy. And, it makes a HUGE DIRECT impact on our productivity and the types of productivity tools we will use tomorrow. If you think about it a minute; the juxtaposition of Location and Privacy, are as crucial and germaine to human engineering as silicone and circuitry.
That is a powerful statement that I believe is true. Over the weeks and months to come I am going to be exploring the issue of Privacy as it relates to advanced telecommunication services.
I hope you'll join me and participate in this discussion with ideas, thoughts for discussion, examples of companies doing privacy right and wrong. Until we figure out privacy and specifically people's impression of privacy, how it works and how it impacts their behaviour, acceptance and use of geolocation features in social media software.
For overview of events over decades starting in 1860's that lead to radio invention see Invention of Radio at About.com
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