- From: Jon Hanna <jon@hackcraft.net>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:25:58 +0100
- To: Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>
- CC: "M. David Peterson" <m.david@xmlhacker.com>, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>, "r.j.koppes" <rikkert@rikkertkoppes.com>, Yuzhong Qu <yzqu@seu.edu.cn>, Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>, semantic-web@w3.org, swick@w3.org, phayes@ihmc.us
Richard Cyganiak wrote: > Imagine a world where everything -- absolutely everything -- has one or > more unique barcode printed on it. Including passports and people. And > everyone has a free barcode printer. Tim has simply asserted that the > barcode on your forehead should be different from the barcode on your > passport. This does in no way preclude you from using your passport to > authenticate yourself. Now imagine I scan the barcode on my forehead with a barcode reader. Does the device refuse to tell me anything about myself because I'm a physical real-world resource and it needs to be redirected to scanning some document about me instead? Surely it just displays a bunch of facts about me that are pertinent to my reason for using this system.
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