http://www.msnbc.com/news/929152.asp?cp1=1
Another pointer towards the blurring barriers between users and IT equipment -- in this case, clothing containing wires which can broadcast messages to receivers for action [such as turning on the lights as you approach a house at night]. The key elements here are "action at a distance", and "no manual required". This technology will be one of the major underpinnings of the infosphere.
Tielhard de Chardin may turn out, in a way that I think he probably would have rejected with a passion, to be right about the "noosphere" after all.
Posted by jho at July 1, 2003 09:54 PM