Pervasive ICT

ONE THING VISITORS to my blogs continue to tell me is the era of pervasive information and communications technology (PICT) is well and truly underway. People visit InsideView.ie in search of digital signage, online meetings, RFID, satnav, free wifi, and smart phones. Put them all together and you have a PICT cocktail.

Small smart displays exist now, carried by UPS drivers and walked across hotel lobbies by kitchen staff. I cannot walk the length of Grafton Street in Dublin without being asked to download at least one promotional ticket from a nearby shop. The bar codes on the back of my car's dashboard sensor actually work to help me register the tag because it's actually powered by RFID. I'm looking at ways of making the television mounted in our kitchen (see left) offer more than a TV signal. I know we are slipping into a PICT realm, without really objecting to the privacy issues that it will bring along as baggage.

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Previously on this blog -- "Pervasive Information and Communications Technology", 1 September 2003.

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