On 8 jan 2007, at 22.23, Ed Kummel wrote:
> Mitre had made considerable additions to the built-in apps as
> well. While I was delivering another dozen Newtons, a guy in the
> elevator demonstrated how the address book had an addition to it
> called locate. Pulling up a contact, then hitting the routing slip,
> you could select "locate" and a floorplan of the building would pop
> up and a flashing asterisk would indicate where the person was and
> a flyout would give the physical location. If you did this for a
> group, tapping the asterisk would initiate a flyout with each
> person's location.
you know, ed - you witnessed this demo a decade ago. i think that if
we would see it ... say today or within the nearest years, it would
still feel a lot like sci-fi.
what an insight ... ten year old technology that feels like sci-fi.
d*mn.
/ ®
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