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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: 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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