Community Art Event 2: SFSU...again

Yes again...I can't help it there's just so much going on here. Actually I didn't mean to attend this event, but think it should count based on the content. Working late on a project in one of the labs, a class began to meet. The class turned out to be a DAI class, Digital Media 3, which focuses on web design and is very relevant to CIA. At any rate, I quietly stayed through the 45min. lecture and took some notes on some interesting technologies that the product/digital media industries are working towards, at least theoretically. They're called "Spimes"and they're already being used if you ask me. check this out for more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spime
The idea comes from Bruce Sterling, a science fiction writer, and revolves around small devices that are trackable throughout their lifespan, easily recyclable, and used to encode an object with information about the object. Kind of like a barcode times a thousand. The idea seems to go beyond commerce though, being that an object can be tracked throughout its lifespan providing data about who used it, for how long, where...you know sci-fi stuff. But actually, Berkeley bus systems aren't far from being something of this nature. I recently heard of a phone application that tracks buses. Uses a GPS device, you can literally log on with your phone and see where the bus is...like being able to look through the buildings at the end of the long street at the corner where the bus should have turned 20 minutes ago. Not glasses, a phone application. At any rate, I thought the spimes concept was an interesting idea that ties in a bit with Google's Earth...one day we may be using it with spime technology to find our house keys!