Here are a couple of proffessionals that have commented on word abriviations in SMS messaging and how they leave a gap in the meaning of both words and sentences:
Doring
Grinter
Eldridge
Fischer
Friday, September 30, 2005
Wednesday, April 20, 2005
Studio - Toy - Fun Websites - Goldie Lookin' Chain
Heres a really cool website, Goldie Lookin' Chain, its proper BLING man!!!
Saturday, April 09, 2005
Visual & Spatial Culture - Essay - From Biology to Biotechnology?
As we progress into the 21st Century reaping in the benefits of all the wonderful technology around us, mobile phones that just don’t act as audio communication devices but beautiful visual sharing devices, laptops that don’t need physical wires to connect and talk to other laptops and cars that are becoming environmentally aware and starting to use cleaner fuels such as LPG and even hydrogen. It’s becoming aware to me and others; how long will it be before this wonderful technology will not just be around us but inside us as well. Could we have the same relationship with this internal technology as we do with the external technology we use today, could something so cold and lifeless be used so intimately?
One visionary of this is Marshall McLuhan, famous for his book “The Global Village.” He believed that technology gives us a virtual community, interconnected by an electronic nervous system where as in the body one action automatically triggers another and events happening at one place can be experienced in real-time by another. He believed that this also like the body is growing all the time and can be related to both outside and inside the body.
Another such visionary of this is Stellarc who believes that throughout time everything evolves including us has a species. Thousands of years ago we walked on four legs as primates do; now we stand tall over the animal kingdom. He argues that you as an individual don’t actually believe that we are at the peak or ideal form of our species; it states we are far from it. He believes the next step is to evolve biotechnologically rather than organically. He believes that in the future our bodies will harbour various machinery and materials to allow us to do things at the moment we can only dream of. For example some kind of synthetic material could replace skin, giving all skins advantages such as strength and flexibility but without the weakness to heat and cold. This is known as his “Utopian future” where he believes humans will have to overcome nature using technology to evolve to the next step making their lives easier and more vibrant.
One early example of this is the increasing use of Radio Frequency Identification Devices or RFID chips to communicate information. They are an item tagging device no bigger than a grain of rice and can be embedded into an object such as person without any physical deformation at all. This device then contains a microchip that has an Electronic Product Code or EPC, which is just like a barcode on an item in a shop. These devices are self powered and can be read by a scanner 20-30 ft away simply by transmitting a radio signal. The EPC is then transmitted back and can be used to access various information on databases about the object or individual in question. They are at the moment used vastly in supermarkets such as Wal-Mart to protect products and on pets such as cats and dogs to identify the animal’s home and registered owner. But just recently now they have shown to show there worth in pets, are starting to become key information products in both the business and political world.
Just recently in a national newspaper there was an article on the Baja Beach Club in Spain using the technology to offer customers a better and quicker service. The customers who had endured the £83 minor operation could simply just walk past a scanner at the clubs entrance avoiding the line and go straight in. Then at the bar all they have to do is flex their bicep and as simple as that they get a Malibu and coke. It’s the brainchild of the clubs owner, Conrad Chase and allows the member to have complete freedom around the complex without having to carry any money of identification at all, but as you can imagine it has had some opposition from certain organisations, who most of all can’t believe why someone would want a “minor operation” just to get served that little bit quicker at the bar.
Another organisation drawing up plans for RFID usage is the Bush administration in the USA. They want to create smart passports making it harder for illegal individuals to enter and travel around the country. They argue that using RFID chips would make the need for a customs gate obsolete and instead just have a radio wave scanner that could cover a whole terminal making the travelling for the user not just safer but easier as well. But again as you can imagine there some people who aren’t as keen as Mr Bush and his friends on this new idea of freeing up information communication.
Another organisation drawing up plans for RFID usage is the Bush administration in the USA. They want to create smart passports making it harder for illegal individuals to enter and travel around the country. They argue that using RFID chips would make the need for a customs gate obsolete and instead just have a radio wave scanner that could cover a whole terminal making the travelling for the user not just safer but easier as well. But again as you can imagine there some people who aren’t as keen as Mr Bush and his friends on this new idea of freeing up information communication.
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