from here to there it's all about keitai. i am not so amazed. first get the interface right, make it affordable and give me a holo-display. generally i have my doubts that people are more social because of wireless. 'there is a life outside the screen' and i don't need one to discover that.

On the train, I punch in a quick e-mail message to my colleague telling her I am running a bit late. A few moments later my phone vibrates and I see a message saying that she will be later still, and she will phone me when she arrives at our rendezvous spot. I send her an e-mail message when I arrive at the appointed place, and run errands in the station building until my phone rings, announcing her arrival. We stay online until we converge in the same part of the station. I wave to her to catch her eye, and cut the line. No apologies are in order for the delay, as neither of us has wasted time. (mizuko ito)

'neither of us has wasted time'. well, i still prefer to use my time on the train in a different way.

putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia' * 2.1 People lie * 2.2 People are lazy * 2.3 People are stupid * 2.4 Mission: Impossible -- know thyself * 2.5 Schemas aren't neutral * 2.6 Metrics influence results * 2.7 There's more than one way to describe something