[Sigia-l] Touching you, touching me

From: Listera (listera)
Date: Fri Mar 25 2005 - 03:58:22 EST

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Well...folks at Nokia have a technical term for it, NFC (Near Field
Communication):

<http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,1522,,00.html?orig=/nfc>

Here's a brief interview:
"There's something very human about giving someone a gift while looking them
in the eye and touching the devices together instead of both people
squirreling away in the interfaces trying to do the data exchange." [1]

<http://www.thefeature.com/article?articleid=101500>

Am I the only one who thinks there's something culturally peculiar about the
notion of people (potentially strangers) touching their devices to exchange
information in public?

Ziya
Nullius in Verba

[1] Incidentally, Nokia designers, mired in the Wintel world, may not have
heard of or fully appreciate Zero Conf/Rendezvous for the painless
auto-discovery of networkable devices:

<http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/rendezvous/>

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