Foe is at Digital ID World in Denver, and a talk there on RFID has inspired her to some wonderful speculation about the social life of objects:

“Imagine a book that can say ‘I have been read by 36 people before you – in 3 cities (London, Sydney and Helsinki) – and all of them paused on page 132. I once spent 5 days in the lift at the British Library, just travelling up and down, after being released by a BookCrosser.’”

In a brief IM-exchange with Paul about the idea, he remarked that “its so easy to get hung up on the negative aspects of RFID”. Perhaps because we hear so very few imaginative or empowering scenarios such as this one.