[Pen-l] Digital manners

[Doyle Saylor <doylesaylor@xxxxxxx>]

Greetings Economists,
Ars Technica has an article here - http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080611

That describes a Microsoft patent request for automating technology  
operation rules in public places.  Broadly speaking if a device helps  
you communicate and becomes socially necessary, then the state can  
regulate it's use.  For example car licenses.  Microsoft in this case  
assumes it can 'patent' public policy as a profit center.

In wearable devices which measure heart rate or other body signs  
(facial expressions) then these signs indicate 'emotion' content in  
the location by the person.  Taken together with the 'patent' above  
this is a community function being built.  The function rests upon the  
necessity of communications connection that requires more than face to  
face modalities.  The automation supercedes what is similar to manual  
labor, face to face communications, with automation that regulates  
social interaction.

The community value of course does not belong to Microsoft, rather is  
the conceptual realm of governing.  But the public structure of  
community connection is essentially culture.  Where culture is  
primarily how connecting between individuals transmits practices and  
raw information others might use.

Focus, attention, intent, sort of metaphysical sounding, are aspects  
of communications connection that automation takes over.  Focus  
amongst other things represent active working of cognition in knowing,  
attention is a structure people use to focus, and intent is emotion  
resources used to focus.  All this sort of personal and private hoo  
ha, is enhanced by mobile computing to the point in which community is  
rapidly being reshaped to mean computing plus connection in human ways  
that is Culture dominate.
thanks,
Doyle Saylor
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