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Develop a system that could customise and print town
and city maps according to an individual’s
requirements. Tourist attractions, cashpoint machines,
pubs or hotels would dynamically appear on the
personal maps and other features of less interest could
be deselected on the user’s request.
221JustinCooke
30 May 2001
Editor’s note: Introduce a domestic or mobile telephone service that
Unfortunately, this
concept seems to
have been adopted
most enthusiastically
be telesales
companies and
should probably be
made illegal if it is not
222already.
would allow enable callers to dial a group of friends at
the same time. The caller would be connected to the
first person to pick up the phone. The service could be
used to avoid making a series of calls to answer
machines in search of someone to talk with. It could
also be used as a mechanism for personal competitions.
Someone with a cinema ticket to spare, for example,
could offer it to the first friend to answer. Friends who
heard the phone ring but picked up too late would hear a
recorded message telling them who was calling and
where they were placed in the race to respond.
David Owen
31 May 2001
