Wired magazine tells the story of a British entrepreneur who has designed a system that can designate every three metre space on earth using a three word code.
What3Words.com is a system that’s much more accurate and memorable than current GPS, postal codes, street addresses and other similar techniques to designate addresses.
For example, I live at “Firmer Parade Geology” and work at “Runways Juror Bootleg“.
Plus this system can pinpoint *any* location on earth, including those that don’t even have a traditional address of any kind.
So why is he an entrepreneur? The site also offers a feature called “OneWord” where you can shorten the three words to a single word for a buck and a half a year – something that could be useful to hotels, restaurants and other businesses if (big if!) OneWords became as ubiquitous as say, Twitter handles.