Changes between Version 32 and Version 33 of ISO15926Primer_Metaphor_Cell_Phone

Timestamp:

10/23/11 03:40:42 (13 years ago)

Author:

gordonrachar (IP: 75.156.216.35)

Comment:

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ISO15926Primer_Metaphor_Cell_Phone

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 This is a good metaphor in another way as well. The complexity of managing the call is hidden from cell phone users. You and I can contact each other by simply calling each other's cell phone number. You don't have to call a different number if I am away from my office. I don't have to use a different protocol if you have a digital phone or an analog phone. You don't have to know if I am at home or at ball game. The cellular network figures out where we are and directs our calls through the closest transmission tower. Similarly, by using ISO 15926 we will all be spared the detail of matching our own information systems to those of our business partners.
 
-A major difference is in what people will have to know about ISO 15926 in order to use it. This metaphor implies that users will have to know ISO 15926 almost as well as they know their native tongue. In fact, most people will not even have to know how to spell ISO 15926-it will simply be built into whatever computer system they are using. To extend the cell phone metaphor, it will be as if an intelligent English translator is built into both cell phones. I would speak my native Cantonese into my phone and you would hear your native Mandarin in yours.
+A major difference is in what people will have to know about ISO 15926 in order to use it. This metaphor implies that users will have to know ISO 15926 almost as well as they know their native tongue. In fact, most people will not even have to know how to spell ISO 15926--it will simply be built into whatever computer system they are using. To extend the cell phone metaphor, it will be as if an intelligent English translator is built into both cell phones. I would speak my native Cantonese into my phone and you would hear your native Mandarin in yours.
 
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