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Thursday, March 19, 2015

The American Information Consumer: SMARTWATCH METADATA

Ernest Karhu
Bear Market Economics




SMARTWATCH UPDATE:

Now that I've had my own smartwatch for about a week now, I wouldn't part from it for one minute.

Why is a smartwatch a valuable adjunct to the smart phone? The answer for me is META DATA or META INFORMATION that my smartphone cannot and does not provide. Just imagine if your smartphone acted like your smartwatch does. It would be absolutely useless or non-functional (as a smartphone).


If the primary reason that you have a personal computer, laptop, tablet and/or smartphone is connectivity to information (which saved me trips to the library or having the latest and greatest version of the Encyclopedia Britannica in your home, which I had as a kid, plus my regular trips to the local public library). Today you can have it all and more, at your fingertips and on your wrist. I do.


But now I have direct access to the metadata along with electronic subscriptions and my smartwatch provides the META DATA I've never had access to in all those years. I would hate to lose this new vital step.

How did I accomplish this? I found an Android smartwatch application  that essentially connected to every notification that my smartphone already accessed. Now my smartwatch is humming and providing the metadata for the data my phone accesses. That's not something my phone can tell me nor would I want a phone that did. But this is why I bought my smartwatch and why I need it now more than ever.

The next step in the evolution of information technology WILL BE a META DATA ORGANIZER, but I know now that I will still NEED, PREFER, WANT and USE mt smartwatch.

This might not obviously make sense to you if you've never had or worn a smartwatch. It didn't occur to me until I had one on my wrist.

Although I've read most of those articles providing 100 reasons why you should NOT buy a smart watch and the articles suggesting the top 10 reason why you need one, none of them suggested or mentioned METADATA.

Well now I have...
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