To hack or not to hack

That is the question, eternal as the existence of the internet itself.
First, let's think what a hack itself is. In essence, it is just "messing" with the socially applicable uses for one single instrument. While obviously our youtube, facebook, bittorrent and whatnot are hacks, think further. Is blogger a hack? You're posting your own thoughts in a fairly well-spoken manner. How did you do that before? Magazines, letters to editors, something that would get you noticed and get your name out there. Something that will get your friends talking. The internet has managed to make this extremely easy, by obviously hacking the pattern of thought we had up until now.

Further, lookbook is an everyday fashion blog-community in which anyone can post an outfit and show where they have purchased certain items of clothing. Looking for brands, specific items of clothing, etc has never been so easy. But can we make it simpler?
The hack I propose is a real-life-technology symbiotic one, and I do realize that it is completely impractical and would require a ridiculous amount of cash to be put in realization, however, I do think that the girls who contemplate life before the 50th pair of shoes would be extremely excited about it.

It is the real-life outfit scanner. I'm sure every single girl interested in fashion has wondered "Where did she get those tights?!" This thought runs through the minds of girls who can tell the level of authenticity of your Louis Vuitton bag on glance more than once a day. In order for this idea to be brought to life however, we would require every brand (yes, ever) to place electric-magnetic tags on their clothing instead of real paper tags. Then, one could "scan" someone's outfit by "taking a picture" via infrared signals(implemented in Japanese cellphones for about a decade now.)

Impractical? Bordering on fantasy? Maybe. But internet knows, I want one.

Expectations

I expect to share my ideas and get new ideas from my classmates on how to be a decent netizen. I believe that we will have a lot of interesting topics covered in this class, and that we will engage in some involved conversations/discussions/debates. While I will try my best to be an active part of the class, I hope the rest of my classmates won't let me down!