Can I login into you?

Doesn't really matter whether you say yes or no today because it's only AD 2010. But we are not far from the days where you would say "I can't believe that my best friend wanted to login into me during the blind date she set up for me!"

What does logging into you really mean? For starters, it's a way for others to see and hear exactly what you are seeing and hearing in real time. It can also include advanced features such as ability for others to observe what you are feeling in realtime by studying your body temperature, heart rate, brain activity patterns, etc. You get the idea.

No. I'm not smoking pot and I think it's a real scenario from a not so distant future. Five billion people on this planet today have cellphones and very soon more than half of them will be capable of taking a photo or video with the cellphone. Imagine a technology that can shoot and transmit stereo HD video with voice in realtime embedded into these devices you own. Anyone who has access to this realtime video is kind of logging into you.

Do you want to guess the industry that would first invest in such a technology. Yes, you guessed it right. It's the industry that still accounts to more than 30% of rich media content on the Internet. Porn.

Now sit back and imagine what you would do with such a technology. Login into your favorite Hollywood star, login into your friend for her wedding instead of attending the celebrations, login into the archives of yourself form your past, login into the that guy having...

PS: Apple already have several patents on "automated mood recognition" for handheld devices.