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Here is the internet chair with magnetic stripe card reader. Twenty three spikes stick up on the seat of the chair, and are retracted (pulse of energy through 1 farad "high voltage capacitor") if you swipe a credit card through the slot on the chair to download a seating license from the license server. The license server is in the 19 inch relay rack behind the internet chair.
Swipe credit card or government issued photo ID card to download a FREE Seating License. Your card is for identification purposes only. The seating is FREE!!! By swiping your card, you agree to be bound by our Terms and Conditions. Your swipe indicates your agreement to these Terms and Conditions of use. If you do not agree to our Terms and Conditions, remain standing and do not swipe your card through the card reader!
________________________________________ Thank you for agreeing to our Terms and Conditions of use. ________________________________________(spikes retract)
Enjoy Quality of Seating Services (TM) Middleware and QoS Provisioning.(a short movie plays)
then the following message is displayed while an extremely loud bank of 60 Hz warning buzzers is sounded throughout the exhibit space:
Your Seating License will expire in 4 seconds Please swipe your credit card or contact the SeatWorks to renew your license WARNING: Your Seating License will expire in 3 seconds! Please get off the chair! contact the SeatWorks to renew your license. License Expired(spikes unretract)
Seat Licensing, however, isn't a new idea. I did an altervista ( http://eyetap.org/s) web search on seat NEAR license, and consolidated the top four hits together to generate this text file which i used in the poster that appears behind the exhibit. In order to get the computer-like font, i did a screen grab using gimp, from a text console display of these search engine results. In fact, to sit at the computer you're at right now, you've probably agreed to quite a few licenses of this sort, unless you're using open source programs on the GNU/Linux operating system.
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