There is now [“a site”:http://www.hemglass.se/Publish/DocShow.asp?ID=9] where Swedish children can input their addresses and then be sent texts to tell them when the ice cream van is due. ([“via”:http://www.ragazze.se/2007/06/25/glassbilen-skickar-sms/trackback/])
All that is missing is another site where older readers can arranged to be picked up in their homes for euthanasia after visiting the first one.
I’m sure I remember a cinema or TV advert from Nokia along those lines – that children in Finland were using their mobile phones for ice cream van alerts. There was an explanation as well – it’s too cold, a lot of the time, to hang around outside, and the distances between stops are such that you won’t hear the chimes. So what’s a kid to do?
No mention of euthanasia 2.0, but it’s bound to happen.
R