I remember visiting the Olivetti Research Labs in Cambridge in about 1987 and interviewing Herman Hausser and Andy Hopper (I was a tech journalist many moons ag

I remember visiting the Olivetti Research Labs in Cambridge in about 1987 and interviewing Herman Hausser and Andy Hopper (I was a tech journalist many moons ago) Some of the stuff they were doing was really innovative. Every member of staff wore 'Active Badges' containing something that today sounds rather like an RFID chip. and sensors blanketing the building You could Telnet into the main campus machine and Finger someone's name and get the response 'Andy Hopper was last seen 5 minutes ago, by the lifts, on the ground floor'. I thought that was dead cool at the time.