Five years ago the simpc was launched in The Netherlands. Many seniors love the basic, "curated computer", with a $12 per month subscription. It offers mail, browsing, chat, skype, open office, a photo album, some games, full support, security, automatic backup and a lifetime guarantee, including replacement if the computer might ever fail. That seems to be enough for most people.
Insurance idea of the nineties
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In 1999 Andersen Consulting's (now Accenture) Center for Strategic Technology Research (CStar) developed a necklace with a camera, mic, heart rate sensor and an electrical skin resistance sensor for measuring Electrodermal Response (EDR).
Wearing a battery pack and a hard disk on your hip, it would record constantly but only actually store the minutes right before and after moments of great excitement, tension or shock, thus automatically collecting the highlights of your life. Life recording with a filter. I guess the filter was originally intended to save disk space.
They had a few people walking around with prototypes. In their publications (I cannot find a reference) they did express the worry that insurance companies might make this a compulsory gadget, some day. Perhaps they didn't want to be associated with big brother insurance after all and removed all references, as big brother would.
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Five years ago the simpc was launched in The Netherlands. Many seniors love the basic, "curated computer", with a $12 per month subscription. It offers mail, browsing, chat, skype, open office, a photo album, some games, full support, security, automatic backup and a lifetime guarantee, including replacement if the computer might ever fail. That seems to be enough for most people.
In 1999 Andersen Consulting's (now Accenture) Center for Strategic Technology Research (CStar) developed a necklace with a camera, mic, heart rate sensor and an electrical skin resistance sensor for measuring Electrodermal Response (EDR).
Wearing a battery pack and a hard disk on your hip, it would record constantly but only actually store the minutes right before and after moments of great excitement, tension or shock, thus automatically collecting the highlights of your life. Life recording with a filter. I guess the filter was originally intended to save disk space.
They had a few people walking around with prototypes. In their publications (I cannot find a reference) they did express the worry that insurance companies might make this a compulsory gadget, some day. Perhaps they didn't want to be associated with big brother insurance after all and removed all references, as big brother would.
Wait till your insurance agent carries a C-Breathalyzer. "Please breath, Sir, for a personal cover scheme". There goes Ol' Mutual.