Amazingly cool, amazingly frightening
9 June 2008
Check out this mind-blowing article from techcrunch.com.
Here’s the gist: In the relatively near future, possibly through the use of the just launched new 3G iPhone, you’ll be able to, say, walk into a bar and know the name, age, marital status, favorite bands and 1,000 other pieces of info about everyone there who also has an iPhone and hasn’t blocked you. The possibilities are almost endless, though I agree with the article’s theory about what could potentially be the best use of this technology: Seeing a person you know you’ve met several times who knows your name and your background, but about whom you’ve forgotten absolutely everything.
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Wow….can you imagine job interviews in a few years? You’ve got an iPhone, your interviewer has an iPhone….you walk into the room, make eye contact and the interviewer glances at his iPhone and just shakes his head and says thanks for coming.
Craziness. I always did well at job interviews, basically by being the only guy who didn’t give a crap, who’d just criticize whatever publication I was lobbying to join–sort of the opposite of being a keener. So I’d probably just walk in holding a carrier pigeon or something, to buck the trend.