Good question! No cats here yet — I’m honestly not sure how I’d keep track of them… maybe some kind of RFID system with readers in the doors? And gait tracking? That could be fun.
I wonder how far the range on those microchip readers could be made – like if you had a RFID system like stores do, built into your doorways, if they could track the chips in cats.
And honestly I expect that the whole scare about our society being implanted and tracked with RFID is going to be a non-issue before the technology to do such things becomes widespread. Why? Because we will all have computers implanted in us by that time, and be tracking ourselves. You know those Family Circus cartoons with little Billy and his dotted-line tracks? We’re going to be making those for fun out of GPS/altimeter tracking of where we’ve been.
I bet our tracks will look like fractal flower petals arranged around our homes, too.
@saint – Ha! You’re probably right. Could be put some neat uses with respect to solving difficult traffic problems, too — though people are already doing that to some degree by sharing data among lots of GPS receivers (like the Dash units).
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Where’s the cat sleepin on top of that and the caption “got some bizniz to do” ?
Good question! No cats here yet — I’m honestly not sure how I’d keep track of them… maybe some kind of RFID system with readers in the doors? And gait tracking? That could be fun.
I wonder how far the range on those microchip readers could be made – like if you had a RFID system like stores do, built into your doorways, if they could track the chips in cats.
And honestly I expect that the whole scare about our society being implanted and tracked with RFID is going to be a non-issue before the technology to do such things becomes widespread. Why? Because we will all have computers implanted in us by that time, and be tracking ourselves.
You know those Family Circus cartoons with little Billy and his dotted-line tracks? We’re going to be making those for fun out of GPS/altimeter tracking of where we’ve been.
I bet our tracks will look like fractal flower petals arranged around our homes, too.
@saint – Ha! You’re probably right. Could be put some neat uses with respect to solving difficult traffic problems, too — though people are already doing that to some degree by sharing data among lots of GPS receivers (like the Dash units).