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Did you know Domino`s Pizza is shortly launching an order facility by text? "Customers will be able to order pizza by text no matter where they may be".

Will you be using this facility?

The mobile phone is no longer a phone. It won`t be long before you won`t need any cash, cards or wallet; you`ll pay for everything via your phone! You won`t need cash tills, technology will automatically debit your balance via your phone as you walk past a certain location.

Japan is way ahead in the mobile technology stakes. Recent research has shown Japanese teenagers are not interested in the opposite sex, cars or property. They only want the latest mobile phone in their hand. The rest of the world are not far behind them!

What`s your view on future technology?

If phones keep going the way they`re going, I can envision a fantastic advance. You`ll use your thumb to text in a message, and the phone will have a tiny thermo-paper printer attached. It`ll print out what you wrote, then you can put it an envelope, go to a Mobile Postal Gateway Service Mall and give them the envelope.

It`ll then be Guaranteed Delivery directly to the address on the evelope. :-)

Japanese teenagers are not interested in the opposite sex?  Uh huh, right.  Show me this mysterious research.  I mean, have you seen the comic books that come out of that country?  And Japanese teens have little interest in cars too?  Japan makes some of the world`s best cars marketed specifically to younger drivers.  And their urban custom car scene is pretty vibrant.

Those claims are ridiculous which has nothing to do with the accuracy of your claim that Japan also leads in cellular technology.  That they do.

Anyway, there`s a company here in Colorado called Feed that is launching a new technology that let`s you pay for things with your cell phone.  You give the cashier a code that comes to you via text message and after they process it, the money comes right out of your bank account.  No cash or credit cards.  Interesting stuff.  Though in my opinion, I think swiping a credit card is easier than using text messaging (at least on my damn phone).

CampSteve,

what I was trying to say (not very well!!!), was the Japanese teens were more interested in their mobiles phones than opposite sex, cars...

Andrew

Very cool. japan has been using this technonolgy for a few years or so. Want to go to a concert in Japan, then just swipe your phone over a concert poster`s barcode, and you will have purchased tickets. I personally keep my phone simple. Still not even texting. Sometimes the more technology advances, the less i can disconnect from work and relax simply with my family. I think a fingerprint would keep things simple, stick my thumb on a machine at a checkout and go... want some gas, put my thumb on the pump. Anyway, in 20 years, gosh where will we be??/ It is really something. So many ways to connect though, usually end up making it easier to be found and less privacy, less peace at home and less relaxation. The sensitivity level of noises, beeps, vibrations, tones....makes us all react....so we are always alert always waiting to be brought into some kind of connect. These keeps our bodies chemical mechanisms on high at all times, no wonder we have so many folks, not sleeping, overweight, stressed out. When I hear someone say....... i don`t use a computer, i want to in a way hug them and say wow, good for you but i am then alerted by a beep, and become a robot again serving technology. Don`t get me wrong, it has so many positives...and i am sooo using alot of it...can`t stop...but that is the problem, it is so neat and seems like so much fun that i can`t stop. When i figure out how to shut it down for 1 day a week to really decompress, i will then be happy.

 

Erin

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I`d love to use my phone for purchases, it should have a simple bar code reader and you press buy. It then sends you a text message confirmation that you show the person at the door when you leave with the product(s). No more cashiers.

This could easily work with vending machines, fast food places, etc. and they`ve already made the first step with those self checkouts. Which I hate because when you use a card you have to touch this dirty card machine that 1,000 people before you just touched, what a great way to spread bacteria/viruses.

My only complaint about the phone would be billing. I DO NOT want my cellular company handling any purchases like a credit card, I can only imagine all the fees they could dream up! A purchase fee of .32 cents, a processing fee of 1.25$, order confirmation costs .22 cents.............so that candy bar could easily cost 5.00$

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But.....but.....but.....what about...cash?

cash works for me, craig...well the all mighty debit card!!

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Cash, I can’t keep cash on me, do you have any idea how fast my wife would confiscate it! Its better I have no cash on me at all.

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He who gets greedy like a pig, gets slaughtered like a hog!

I like Domino's pizza. But not my favorite, cause Yellow Cab was my all time favorite. Thanks for sharing this. Keep it up and good luck.

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