"In William Gibson's 1994 novel 'Virtual Light,' bike messenger Chevette Washington swipes a pair of virtual-light glasses that send information about what the wearer's looking at directly to his or her optic nerves."
San Franciso-based GeoVector is developing such "location-aware" services: "Our philosophy is the world itself is a gigantic database and almost everything out there has some kind of geolocated reference... I think it will be second nature for people to pick up any kind of mobile device and point it at something and get information from the real world. Just like now it's second nature to turn on your PC and pick up the mouse.' /WSJ.com/
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