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posted by mattie_p on Sunday March 09 2014, @07:08AM   Printer-friendly
from the we're-just-as-not-evil-as-google dept.

fx_68 writes:

Bloomberg Business Week reports that Disney is investing $1 billion (or milliard) in guest tracking. From the article:

Jason McInerney and his wife, Melissa, recently tapped their lunch orders onto a touchscreen at the entrance to the Be Our Guest restaurant at Florida's Walt Disney World Resort and were told to take any open seat. Moments later a food server appeared at their table with their croque-monsieur and carved turkey sandwiches. Asks McInerney, a once-a-year visitor to Disney theme parks: "How did they know where we were sitting?"

 
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  • (Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 09 2014, @07:57AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 09 2014, @07:57AM (#13537)

    Disney is guilty of countless crimes against true culture. This is yet another.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by lx on Sunday March 09 2014, @08:24AM

    by lx (1915) on Sunday March 09 2014, @08:24AM (#13545)

    You may hate everything Disney stands for (a sentiment shared by me) but that doesn't exclude their products from being part of culture.

    If you care to point me to the Definitive List Of True And Approved Culture then my life will become so much easier.

    • (Score: 5, Informative) by Barrabas on Sunday March 09 2014, @10:05AM

      by Barrabas (22) on Sunday March 09 2014, @10:05AM (#13560) Journal

      E.D. Hirsh's book Cultural Literacy [wikipedia.org] has exactly what you're looking for.

      The index lists topics that every English speaker needs to be familiar with to be considered culturally literate.

      There are also a number of online cultural literacy tests [readfaster.com] to help you determine which areas need work, and Houghton Mifflin's The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy [bartleby.com] for reference.

      You're welcome.

      • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Daniel Dvorkin on Sunday March 09 2014, @12:18PM

        by Daniel Dvorkin (1099) on Sunday March 09 2014, @12:18PM (#13577)

        E.D. Hirsh's [sic] book Cultural Literacy has exactly what you're looking for.

        The index lists topics that every English speaker needs to be familiar with to be considered culturally literate by E.D. Hirsch.

        FTFY.

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      • (Score: 3, Interesting) by lx on Sunday March 09 2014, @01:05PM

        by lx (1915) on Sunday March 09 2014, @01:05PM (#13591)

        To be honest, to me these lists more or less resemble Bluff your Way into Management books. What's the point of cramming in culture so you won't look out of place at a dinner party? Either live it with passion following your own compass or forget about it. Out there in the real world people talk about reality TV and the Oscars. High Culture has devolved into a niche interest for weird people.

        • (Score: 2) by demonlapin on Sunday March 09 2014, @06:05PM

          by demonlapin (925) on Sunday March 09 2014, @06:05PM (#13652) Journal
          It's not really important to know this stuff if you live out West. If you want to fit in at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, or at a society event in Boston, OTOH, it is.