Comments | callicrates: What was he thinking?

callicrates

What was he thinking?

Nov 17, 2009 21:18

I'm at Supercomputing 2009 this week. The conference this year has three thrust areas: sustainability/energy efficiency, bio-computing, and "3D Internet", whatever that is. (I do graphics and visualization research. You'd think I would have heard of it.) Each day we have a different keynote speaker. Tomorrow morning is Leroy Hood, a ( Read more... )

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evilmagnus November 18 2009, 04:46:35 UTC

He's still probably sore over the 32 core limit to Intel's x86 architecture.

studentbane November 18 2009, 17:25:38 UTC

I'm afraid that I have to disagree with you. It sounds like his talk was coherent, and conveyed comprehensible information (even if it was wrong-headed). That puts it way, way out in front of keynotes that I saw Tim Berners-Lee give at AAAI a couple of years ago, or Marvin Minskey give a couple of years before that. So this cannot possibly have been the worst keynote ever.

W.r.t. the tech side, though, I basically agree. This is part of my frustration w/ most VR novels. Most VR/cyberpunk novels take the VR as an excuse to have magic, but they don't actually use it for anything. (Let alone understand anything about how computers or the infrastructure works.)

But let me play devil's advocate for a moment. I can actually envision some very big ticket things to do with 3D on the web.

For one, you may not want to buy cars or houses every day, but a lot of people buy a lot of clothing online. One of the big problems there is knowing how the clothes will fit, how they will hang, and so on -- basically, how they will make me look, ( ... )