Hey Shaun, check this out!!!!!! I just found it on TechDirt, looks like FabCola is just another way of saying Microsoft!
A just-published Microsoft patent application for Monitoring Group Activities describes how a company or the government can determine if employees are not meeting their project deadlines through the use of detection components comprised of 'one or more physiological or environmental sensors to detect at least one of heart rate, galvanic skin response, EMG, brain signals, respiration rate, body temperature, movement, facial movements, facial expressions, and blood pressure.
A just-published Microsoft patent application for Monitoring Group Activities describes how a company or the government can determine if employees are not meeting their project deadlines through the use of detection components comprised of 'one or more physiological or environmental sensors to detect at least one of heart rate, galvanic skin response, EMG, brain signals, respiration rate, body temperature, movement, facial movements, facial expressions, and blood pressure.
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Oh, don't worry Paul...from what they purport to measure, so long as you run around in circles, stressed out of your brain, like a rat in a science experiment (cue electric shock plates now), you'll be fine...
The link is similar to the BCC (Bureau of Consumer Confidence) in
Mallcity 14 using FabCola High students for market testing while they sit in their 'classes' each day...and we know what happens when they fall asleep or don't pay atterntion to the constant stream of advertorials that comprise their education...
And I thought the now-defunct MBNA credit card company was clever when they installed motion detectors in their cubicle warrens to detect when cube-ians rose from their seats at their terminals (thus weren't busy debt-peddling)
That was nothing compared to this.
ron
Ron, if you haven't already, check out my story '79.9' for a perspective on work cubicles (the story has even attracted interest from management gurus,one of whom has included it in a forthcoming 'how to' mgt guide book - or in this case, how 'not to'...)
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