Prentiss wonders what happens when the whole world is annotated:
Imagine you hit the GeoURL button on your PDA while walking down the street and it coughs up Joe Bloe’s five-year-old report of what he was thinking while eating a sandwich at Subway, thirteen competing business directory listings for Toy Joy, a bit of GeoSpam about a sale at Buffalo Exchange, the current status of the 29th & Guadalupe traffic signal, the locations of any GPS- and WiFi-enabled vehicles or pedestrians waiting for the light, Conan’s and Baskin-Robbins coupons, 68 reviews of miscellaneous videos rented from Vulcan and Pleasure Land, a literary note about the bench where Lars Eighner used to sit with his famous dog Lizbeth, notes on graffiti in a nearby alley, 237 archived blog entries from the seven bloggers living in Texana Dorm (and another 133 entries from their boyfriends’ or ex-boyfriends’ or would-be boyfriends’ blogs)…?
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