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Don't walk and thumb type at the same time!

It just to be "don't run with scissors", now it's "don't walk and type"... Everywhere I turn today I see people thumb typing away on their cell phones. Sending SMS of course, text communicating in chunks of 150 characters.

It is apparent that cell phones have changed the way some segments of the population communicate and stay in touch. We haven't seen nothing yet though. Add mobile cameras and screens, always connected, in the mix and weird things start happening.

We need to define new ways of thinking when it comes to privacy and public places, what is ok and not. We will probably need new laws and regulations (at least media corporations will try to get them...), to control that privacy and the flow of imagery, copyright and ownership. Companies will have to redefine their business model...´

Last night Gibson wrote about how old business models can collapse when meeting new technology like the phenomenon linked below, people taking pictures of covers and images in not yet bought magazines and sending to friends.

"The unexamined aspect of the model, here, has been that you previously hadn't been able to show anyone an image in a magazine until you'd somehow physically acquired a copy of that magazine, and had left the retail environment with it."

"Digital shoplifting" the japanese book stores call it.

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Japan's 'digital shoplifting' plague

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