tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018371774869383950.post6588522724474422723..comments2023-09-20T16:55:09.433+01:00Comments on A Shiny World: These are my dreams, tell me yours?louloukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11562093751876067547noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018371774869383950.post-57099935963772155512010-10-21T19:00:22.038+01:002010-10-21T19:00:22.038+01:00Document barcodes. So simple, so beautiful. Love i...Document barcodes. So simple, so beautiful. Love it. Absolutely love it. <br />I do think the way we map potholes and record them needs to change. I'm just not sure they're quite ready for our ideas yet ;O)louloukhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11562093751876067547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018371774869383950.post-15412369248667738972010-10-21T18:23:34.401+01:002010-10-21T18:23:34.401+01:00Good to see this!
I'd ensure that a digital v...Good to see this!<br /><br />I'd ensure that a digital version of every public document (form, leaflet, newsletter, whatever) was online and that the print version had a barcode and a human-readable URL on it. Sometimes you want paper. Sometimes you want a digital document. Sometimes you want both. It's great to be able to skip between them easily. Messed up filling out a paper form? Download another one. See an interesting poster or leaflet but don't want to carry it? Scan the barcode or type in the URL and off you go.<br /><br />Your pothole idea could be done with cyclists with handlebar-mounted smartphones. Use the accelerometer in the smartphone to measure the vibration in the unit which will give a profile of the bumps in the road. Match it up with the GPS and push all the data up to a big anonymised pothole datastore in the cloud.Adrian Shorthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18250170055363571973noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018371774869383950.post-32588359611653735542010-10-20T23:37:40.547+01:002010-10-20T23:37:40.547+01:00:O) You are, of course, absolutely right. I was ta...:O) You are, of course, absolutely right. I was talking to someone this evening about this. I grew up in Somerset, school was a 30 mile round trip each day. If I think about what being digitally connected could have allowed me to do....<br /><br />Am so so so pleased Cumbria got what it needed and deserved today. A beautiful place is a beautiful place but for a place to remain sustainable it must have more than a tourist economy, it must have a resistant and sustainable economy. If people can't get to you cos of foot and mouth or flooding, sell to them via the web instead. Keep things ticking over, keep reminding people you exist. Enable space to become outside influence resistant and it becomes sustainable.<br /><br />But you know all of this. Is there anything I can tell you that you don't? :O)louloukhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11562093751876067547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018371774869383950.post-89055619248522375852010-10-20T18:12:50.262+01:002010-10-20T18:12:50.262+01:00If I could do anything? Why, I would fibre up the ...If I could do anything? Why, I would fibre up the country, remove the copper bottlenecks that enable an obsolete phone network to hold this country to ransom. I would employ all the openreach staff to lay the fibre, together with all the unemployed. This in turn would create new jobs for innovative productive work instead of dead end jobs protecting an out of date business model and copper cabal who is only interested in shareholders. They don't even pay much tax because of the pension deficit they could pay off in a year if they chose to. Once we were all on fibre instead of copper we would be on gigabits, not a pathetic meg or two. The digital economy could thrive. Folk wouldn't have to worry about noisy lines breaking the connection, or distance from cabinets and exchanges. The information superhighway would open up and just WORK. Everyone young and old could get a connection EASILY and use it for whatever they liked. Films through a tv, or work, or play.<br />Yup, that's what I would do. And then you could do your thing too.<br />chrisCyberdoylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11305746720871132673noreply@blogger.com