SPIME

Crown Correlation to SPIME?

"In July, 2004, Mexico's attorney general became a smart object. Rafael Macedo de la Concha had an RFID chip implanted in his arm that can track and authenticate him, a bold bid to fight government corruption. Of course, it's his brain that makes him smart. It's the chip that makes him an object: cataloged, searchable, and locatable in space and time."  - Bruce Sterling, Wired Magazine

Soon, we'll be able to purchase things with objects like our mobile phones. This will become possible through emerging technologies like Near Field Communications (NFC). Next year, SanDisk will be releasing an SD card that can be inserted into your mobile phone's SD slot. Once embedded in your phone, you'll be able to link to financial institutions (banks, credit cards, and debit cards) and then purchase goods and services wirelessly from merchants.

Eventually, embedded technologies will become prevalent in people for humanitarian reasons like Mexico's attorney general mentioned above, and for locating Alzheimer’s patience that have wandered off from rehab centers. At that point, it won't be a far stretch to utilize embedded technologies in people for a number of useful purposes like identification, easy access to health records, and even financial transaction capabilities.

When people become an object (or, SPIME) capable of transmitting signals to purchase goods and services, we (Crown Financial Ministries) need to be prepared to meet their needs with relevant Biblical principals, tips and tools to cope with these technosocial transformations.

As George Murphy, CTO of Crown says; "...We must go where they are."

Shaping Things

According to Wikipedia, SPIME is a neologism for a currently-theoretical object that can be tracked through space and time throughout the lifetime of the object. Bruce Sterling coined the term and authored a book about the topic.

Sterling describes "Shaping Things as a book about created objects and the environment, which is to say, it is a book about everything. Seen from a sufficient distance, this is a small topic. The ideal readers for this book are those ambitious young souls (of any age) who want to constructively intervene in the process of technosocial transformation. That is to say, this book is for designers and thinkers, engineers and scientist, entrepreneurs and financiers, and anyone else who might care to understand why things were once as they were, why things are as they are, and what things seem to be becoming."