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Reading this article kicked my idea-generator into gear. The technology is here already for location-based games: interactive cellphone games which use the location-sensing mechanism on the phone to move the virtual character around a virtual realm. You are both a player in the real world, as well as the virtual.

Now, expand that idea some. How about take that to cinema? Make a story out of it. Combine that with flashmobbing and a net connection... what do you get? You get a group of people, armed with camera-and-GPS devices all congregating on a single site, perhaps a stage you set up or a performance you are doing.

Set up multiple such ones around a city; turn the city into your stage. Have people register their phone numbers to receive SMS messages telling them the new location after each micro-performance is done.

Make multiple locations at the same time and give different locations to different participants. What if they follow the crowd instead of their SMSs? You have a truly interactive audience and they are lost without your electronic guidance.

Is this in our future? If so, who would like to build it?