Interesting article on five technological changes in the Olympics 2008:
Supercomputers and weather control
Cyber warfare
On demand coverage
Anti-terrorism efforts
Timing
It was linked from a Beijing Olympic Games blog post which added a few more:
Stadium technology
Blogging and social media
Amateur video
This blogger will be covering the Games. It will be interesting to see how fans skirt the unenforceable restrictions of NBC and IOC.
Athletes are allowed to blog — but only under silly guidelines.
China is obviously conflicted and confused. They want to clamp down on freedom of Olympic speach. Yet 90% of Beijing’s major streets will be covered by Wi-Fi and WiMAX technologies for the Olympics.
It will be amusing to watch them try to restrict independent commentary.
Ever since I travelled there in 1997 I’ve believed that the internet will be the main agent forcing change in the doddering regime.
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