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Thursday, July 17, 2008

Fifty ways to fold a lover

Smarter Systems are getting smarter all the time. Here is a screenshot of the opac's new request procedure.

Actually it's clear from the Vodafone advert that the technology has advanced well beyond this point. I'm not thinking of the scene where the bloke folds up his bookcase (read 'library') and puts it in his pocket, but when he folds up his girlfriend.

Creepy? Just a tad - everyone knows centrefolds must go out with the magazine they came in. Though no doubt before long we'll be folding ourselves into our own pockets without giving it a second thought.

Which brings me to an inevitable observation: cellphones are increasingly looking like teletubbies; and teletubbies are increasingly.. us. It is a matter of some urgency then to see how this folding technology unfolds. I wouldn't want to end up the green one.