On beyond Twitter

[Dan Goodman]

Twitter is for people who find blogging too slow. It's not ideal; for
one thing, entries are limited to a certain number of characters.
(There are ways around this.) But people are using it for non-obvious
purposes, such as telling when plants need watering and then watering
them. (http://twitter.com)

Thoughts on what might be done with a sufficiently advanced future
equivalent: Track celebrities and political candidates. Hook the
candidate up to medical sensors, so their health can be checked moment
to moment -- and the side-effects of anger. Some candidates might opt
for lie detector hook-ups. Some celebrities might want the world to
know when they're sexually aroused.

Beyond that? Direct brain feeds. Not full brain-to-brain feeds,
unless the recipient wants to commit suicide. But "voice" and text
feeds, to start with. Then non-verbal transmissions: This is what my
kind of synesthesia looks/sounds/tastes/feels like. This is a
hypercube being eaten by a hyperbear.

--
Dan Goodman
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