From: John Hay (OceanCity_at_mac.com)
Date: Thu Oct 13 2005 - 13:53:50 PDT
Wow, another novel concept worth of exploring!
But this would require yet another elusive standard.
We already have bluetooth so we're half-way there already.
Now there needs to be a universal language.
Oh, I think we already had this, HTML ?
hhhmmmm.......
10/13/05 Ed Kummel issued the following and I have taken literary
license to pass it along on a "Need to Know Basis" . . . ?
>My personal vision is the exact oposite of
>conversion...fully diversification! Multiple devices
>that only do a single task. YET!!!they all communicate
>seemlessly to each other and share common data...kinda
>the same way the Newton soups work...Have an address
>book device....have a cellphone...have an email
>reader...all seperate devices that allows a single
>dumb reader to request data from all of the above for
>the feeling of convergence..This was the original
>vision of Bluetooth...have a PDA and a cellphone, but
>you don't have the phone number in your PDA...connect
>to the pda to get that phone number...That, to me, is
>the future...complete divergence..single task devices
>that are autonomous and offer hooks to authenticated
>devices...
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