Network and sharing

Last week we talked about Networks and how information is passed from one computer to another. At first I was really confused as to how this topic would relate to the recipe ipod since i was originally thinking that they would not be able to share recipes with each other. But when i thought about it that made no sense, what is the point of having an amazing recipe if you can't share it with people? So they should be able to share "recipe cards" with each other. There would be two ways to share a "recipe card", the first would just be from the computer program where you could just copy and paste the recipe file into an e-mail attachment or chat window, in the same manner that people share songs today. That method would involve the standard network interactions, where the message is handed from computer to computer/server till it gets to its destination.

The second way would be from recipe ipod to recipe ipod. I don't really know the particulars of how it would be done, but the fact that it would share means that it would have to be able to connect to the internet, so it would have a built-in air port/wifi thingy (I don't know what its called). This also means that each recipe ipod would have to have its own individual identification code, like a phone number or pin. Then you could just send the "recipe card" like you send pictures between phones, you choose send to off of the option menu and then insert the pin # into the to box. This method probably takes the same steps as sending things through a computer. If it was really advanced it would send a recipe with just a bump of recipe ipods. It would be really cool if you could point and hold a recipe and then hold the recipe ipods close together and just drag the recipe from one to the other. In the mythical world where this is actually made that is how people would share recipes, when they are not at their computers. I bet chefs, and stay at home moms that love to cook would be the only ones that actually carry around their recipe ipods, so for everyone else there will be free sticky notes to write done peoples pin # and the recipes they want :).