Rick Segal realised he needed a visa in a hurry: I happened to wander onto the Australian site which talks about all the visa requirements and, golly gee, it’s all electronic. Click this, fill in that, fork over 20 bucks, and bob’s yer uncle, get the barbee fired up. Yup. In just under 6 minutes, [...]
the omnipresence of mobiles is an unavoidable feature of daily life, but we have scarcely begun to think through the implications of the transition connected devices are making from being big tethered things to being small wandering things
Having just discovered Directgov’s mobile internet site, I had a look around. Very sensibly they don’t attempt to replicate the range of content on their main site and have tried to focus on a limited set of content that might be particularly useful to people on the move. But in going down that route, Directgov [...]
We won’t know what all that will be good for until it becomes clearer what it is good for. That’s partly the result of the general chaos affects which afflict weather forecasts, but it is also more specifically a result of our not yet having even thought about how the way the world works is affected by the universal and ubiquitous of powerful but pocket sized network devices.