Came across the following really interesting bit of research through Bruce Sterling's blog.

Literacy, Communication, Design II
The Motofone is being marketed as a device that amongst other things aspires to "help bridge literacy gaps" including voice prompts to "guide the user quickly and easily through menu navigation, messaging and other ( Read more... )

This train of thought seems to going around.

Just today on the ZDNet blog Between The Lines, David Berlind posted an article entitled Doc Searls: The net could get flushed into the telco sewer system unless WE act. Now.

That brought me, of course, to Doc Searls' actual article Saving the Net: How to Keep the Carriers from Flushing the Net Down ( Read more... )