I was totally set to hate this idea, but then I had this blinding flash of a way to use this technology for good. What if a person’s cell phone minutes went up or down depending on stored data of how much people were paying attention to him? Further, what if the phone simply ended a call once that number dropped below a certain threshold?
Egads! I just had a horrid thought–what if they expand this technology to cover conference calls! :eek: No longer can I ignore the prattling going on while I catch up on email, memos to review, etc.! No more devoting a tiny portion of my brain to listening for my name while the rest of it daydreams! Bad. Very Bad!
Hell, what if they invent a device that can determine if I’m paying attention during meetings? My job is toast.
I envision the advent of a new tonal pidgin of English that INVOLVES lots of random tonal variaaaaa tions.
Y’know, just to make this new technology utterly obsolete and useless.
Third…uh…thirded-ed…Umm…yeah, what they said.
Well said KoS!
Am I the only one who envisioned Steve Martin inventing some sort of masturbation-calibration device?