Its a shame that Headmap has become hard to find because now that the tech is hitting the street, it would be an ideal time to see what people were thinking a little while ago.

If I were a designer of location-aware infrastructure I would definitely put Headmap at the top of my list.

It’s much more euphoric and naively utopic than a book like Everyware, but it gives you a better bottom-up view of how the street is going to use this stuff.

Thanks for keeping the Headmap resource alive so it doesn’t disappear in the churn of the blogosphere.

http://open-plan.org/

http://locative.us/

Steve Mann the self described techno-vigilante who has been wearing some form of augmented reality for 30 years was hassled by airport security upon flying back to Toronoto in the aftermath of September 11th.:

“Suddenly the ‘wired Mann’ found himself disoriented and incapable of performing the simplest task. After a three-day ordeal, he bumped against a pile of fire extinguishers and passed out. Finally he had to board the plane in a wheelchair, a casualty of the revolution in transmission which he tried to oppose through similar means” (98).