Hobbies for the 21st century: global-mobile traffic-watching

I had a blade runner yesterday, as I sat in the usability lab at work in the Milan hinterland talking UI, with the late morning sun streaming through the half-closed blinds of a window shaped like a flat plasma screen, and watched out the corner of my eye phosphorescent car lights stream down orange lava looking Kowloon roads and octopus flyovers streamed live in data roaming across the screen of a 3G phone, and thought that traffic in Hong kong didn't look too bad for a friday night.

January 31, 2004 | 07:49 PM
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Thank you. That was very well put, and brought back several instances of slight future shock caused by daily phenomena before imagined to be part of unbelievable future scenarios.

Posted by: even at February 5, 2004 03:07 PM