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Microsoft's Misunderstood 'Avoid-Ghetto' Tech |
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Written by Rob Enderle
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Monday, 30 January 2012 06:00 |
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FG_AUTHORS: Rob Enderle
Earlier this month, Microsoft applied for a patent related to a technology that would highlight areas of high crime and route people around them. Folks seemed to get upset because areas like this tend to struggling due to a lack of revenue, and this would route people who might otherwise shop there to other safer and likely more lucrative areas. While true, I think it comes down to choice. Would you like to have the choice of whether to take a risk, or would you like someone else to make this choice for you, for the good of the folks selling products in those areas?Read more: |