Is this all a joke? I don't think so - as too many people share these ideas.
Mike Hawley, Olin Shivers, and Sandra Gordon at MIT's Personal Information
Architecture Group at the Media Lab and MIT's Lab for Computer Science have
proposed:
- BodyNet - intimate interface to the global net
- "The BodyNet is a very local wireless area network that
integrates all the information appliances on your person: cameras, watches,
calculators, notebooks, datebooks, checkbooks, credit cards, advanced displays,
phones, radios, televisions, and other communication systems will cooperate,
linking to form an intimate, pervasive interface to the Net."
- BodyTalk - a common interface language for all these systems, expected to
allow access to very low level operations with in the systems to create a very
"open" system - thus for example your body computer could provide a "phone", by
linking the audio input and output devices to the communications link and use
the telephone number which just arrived on the pager receiver to place a
"telephone" call.
