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<P><STRONG>Wiki Response 10 - mobile media</STRONG></P>
<P><STRONG>Questions:</STRONG></P>
<P>1.&nbsp; What will the tourist of the future look like?</P>
<P>2.&nbsp; Are these new "interactive tours" psychogeography at its best?</P>
<P>3.&nbsp; Can this new form of technological touring evolve into a bigger and better use?</P>
<P><U>Analysis of question 1:</U></P>
<P>This may seem like an odd question, but it was the first thing that popped into my mind as I surfed these sites.&nbsp; With the creation of downloadable programs that can be played on a PDA or tablet computer (anything portable really) the tourist of the future may walk into any city in the world and have instant access to maps, historical information, and guided tours throughout the city.&nbsp; The tourist may change from a small Japanese couple with huge camera's in front of their faces and fanny packs around their wastes, to technologically savy explorers following the directions they recieve through the guided tour on their PDA, they will probably still be Japanese though.</P>
<P>I think this is a great idea, and has similarities to the out-dated automated tours regularly given in museums when I was younger.&nbsp; I remember going on class trips and seeing people walking around with headphones they could plug into a station at each exhibit.&nbsp; I guess this is the "wireless" version.&nbsp; </P>
<P>I thought the Amsterdam project was the most intersting.&nbsp; Although I'm not sure of the actual purpose, I thought the idea of creating a map based on the movements of the city's residesnt instead of its actual geographic boundaries was a new and innovative idea... thinking out of the box at its best.&nbsp; The only downfall was the preceived lack of privacy.&nbsp; More frequently, people around the world are complaining of the lack of privacy an individual recieves as exemplified in an earlier article we responded to, NYC Surveillance Camera Players.&nbsp; If the project can get past that monster obstacle, I think it could be really fascinating.</P>