Mementos as Document Retrieval Keys 167
Dekaner writes "The BBC is running a story that BT has demonstrated a scanner that can be used to retrieve digital documents by associating them with a physical object. When the digital files are stored on the server, they are associated with a scanned image of the object, for example a seashell. Later, when the user wants to retrieve the files, the memento is again placed on the scanner. The resulting image is used as the retrieval key."
Re:The bane of the photocopier... (Score:2, Informative)
Johnny Mneumonic: True in the Movie, not the story (Score:3, Informative)
While this is true of the movie, this is not true of the original William Gibson story of the same name it was based on. There the mnemonic trigger was "Christian White and his Aryan Reggea Band."
>In the world of the future, it will be corporations, not governments, that will oppress the people.
Yeah, well, when you find a corporation which has killed 100 million people the way communism has, be sure to let us know...