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While pervasive conveniences are taken for granted or even being considered necessary, how far should convenience goes? Are we considering/suggesting technology as part of human revolution?

reference links
http://wearcam.org/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann
http://www.sics.se/humle/projects/persona/web/workshop/abstracts.html
http://wearcam.org/tv04/hyper-textual_ontology.htm

http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=jEvzjaEoKds&feature=related








The middle man/good buddy/secretary/personal trainer/big brother/operator/doorman/

As one of our closest "friend", instead of providing simple, rigid form of communication, can the mobile-phone provide something useful to help improving/refining our way to communicate with others?

by giving the cell-phone more human feature/response functions, can it comfort/ease the intense form of human-to-human interaction?

Can some of the other/traditional forms of communication provide something useful to the cell-phone one?

reference links



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDog
http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=bXEIRs4SF9Q




The call history of our cell-phone basically record the social activities/interactions of our own, but can we understand ourselves/the social relationships we have better?

can an emotional map of our call history/relationships editor help?how can it be shown?and how can it affect our perceptions and behavior?

reference links:
http://www.biomapping.net/

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