Dog Starts Car: Too Much Technology?
In my Future of Technology speech, one of the things I talk about is "Technology for Technology's Sake" -- technology where it doesn't belong, making things more complex and failure prone than necessary.
An example I used at my keynote at the ICE conference earlier this week was the keys for my wife's van -- they have a microprocessor in them. Supposedly this is an anti-theft device.
More likely, some propeller head (like myself) figured out they could do it, someone in marketing thought customers would like it, and they did it!.
So what if your dog eats your key, or maybe the chip when you're changing the battery? Well, you may need your dog to start your car? Ridiculous, but true?
Full story here.
An example I used at my keynote at the ICE conference earlier this week was the keys for my wife's van -- they have a microprocessor in them. Supposedly this is an anti-theft device.
More likely, some propeller head (like myself) figured out they could do it, someone in marketing thought customers would like it, and they did it!.
So what if your dog eats your key, or maybe the chip when you're changing the battery? Well, you may need your dog to start your car? Ridiculous, but true?
Full story here.
posted by Ted Demopoulos at 10:05 AM
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