I was returning home from a training course in Manchester last Tuesday when I happened across a MBA participant who had taken the MBA in Engineering Management at Bradford University School of Management. For once the boot was on the other foot, he couldn't remember my name but I could remember his..... the problems of a one-to-many relationship that a lecturer has.
It struck me later that if Google+ and Google Maps were mashed up with GPS then I could get my iPhone to alert me to the fact that someone I knew was nearby. Of course the privacy settings would have to be carefully thought (one could have an 'avoid' setting!) but rather than the pull technology we have at the moment into a push technology. Perhaps such meetings could be less serendipitous and we could connect with people we hadn't seen for a considerable amount of times. It could even help us remember names........
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