*I travel all the time, and, yes, there probably is some nifty way that my data shadow could help other people. For instance, I could have Facebook spy on me and all my friends. I could have Google track my every online move. Or I could be all public-spirited like this Tagwhat guy, and do an incredible amount of free labor for what often seems rather minimal personal benefit.
*Probably there was also some missing, utopian Jaron Lanier / Xanadu model where I somehow micropay this guy five cents, and there's a zillion of me, so he's rich, and peace and justice break out worldwide.
*I'd be guessing all of this dainty social-software maneuvering gets blown out of the water by some off-the-wall implementation of something else entirely. Like, say, small, gooey, spimey DNA-centric handhelds at room-temperature, each of them with more computing power than the entire planet has right now.
http://www.physorg.com/news192801007.html
(((Or, well, maybe the Chinese government will just provide "travel services" for everybody all at once, whether they like it or not.)))
(((But, you know, that's just speculative. That's not now. The great blessing of Tagwhat is that Tagwhat is actually now. Like, right now, now. There are real guys eating ramen and sleeping under the desk really trying to make this happen.)))
(((AR people really like to pick on realtors, for some reason. Maybe because the real estate crisis has realtors so pitifully disoriented. And also, realtors are the slaves of urban mapping. You know what would be really great? Adam Greenfield "everyware" real-estate agents. They still dress and talk and act just like real estate agents, yet they're totally into quoting the urban-amenity theories of Adam Greenfield. Like a Pohl-Kornbluth sci-fi 1950s social satire. Story practically writes itself there.)))
