Letters from work
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I really love having this little computer on me that I can obsessively check my email and face book status however some improvements could be made. One, I hate actually pulling it from my belt pouch constantly I would much prefer it to stay attached to my person and feed to other devices like a blue tooth jaw bone for instance but I'd also want to check the internet. Speaking of which, I've developed this bad habit in conversation, when someone runs a "fact" by me like for instance Americans don't intake enough omega 6's I immediately jump to my little screen and start fact checking. Oh, turns out you are wrong, we in fact ingest too damn many omega 6 and not enough omega 3.. This starts cutting into the need for conversation and just makes me look like a know it all punk, but whatever I pay for the service, a service that proves to make idle conversation even more pointless. So I'd much prefer to make my searching much less conspicuous by way of a display in my glasses or even projected on my retina. I'm not afraid of the future, why are you? Augmented reality is coming soon and in my lifetime I'm sure I'll get my wish, but do I really want to wave my hands around at invisible frames of information? Probably not. Its bad enough that its becoming increasingly difficult to determine whether someone talking to nothing is crazy or just in a heated argument with their spouse. After seeing a Ted talk recently about a wireless device that sits on your head and calibrates itself to your thought pattern, a bit like the devices used in the movie strange days to record and playback thoughts, I'm convinced we may all be wearing more hats in the future. You can search, type and all that without taking your eyes off someone or blinking to click. I do really believe something William Gibson said, in the future people won't make a distinction between cyberspace and real space..thought future generations might lash out against this since it'll be common place to look up into the sky, point at a star which will give you a technically read out, video and blog links, data populated into a twitter stream (if it isn't replaced by something else), ect... you'll be able to even zoom in.. I could see how that might get annoying but that doesn't mean I wouldn't want to see that kind of future.
Here's conversation I've had a few times, the development of prosthetics. There are quite a few men and women younger then me who have been through the gulf and Afghanistan wars and not come back with all their arms and legs. So why would a 20 something want to replace a limb with an artificial device designed to resemble the real one you lost? You're liberated from the constraints of biological engineering and frankly an artificial limb isn't fooling anyone. Why not get an arm that can spin on a ball and has a docking station for an iPod? Why not make the limbs sleek like a sports car, or something out of a Chris Cunningham music video. Eventually something like this will happen, might already be happening for all I know. So for the sake of argument, what if this thinking was embraced and artificial limbs became like a tech gadget, appreciated and sought after? Would we see a future where people might become envious, maybe even be inclined to replace limbs? Just a thought.
- 3 cups of coffee blasting right off to the fourth.
Posted via LjBeetle
I really love having this little computer on me that I can obsessively check my email and face book status however some improvements could be made. One, I hate actually pulling it from my belt pouch constantly I would much prefer it to stay attached to my person and feed to other devices like a blue tooth jaw bone for instance but I'd also want to check the internet. Speaking of which, I've developed this bad habit in conversation, when someone runs a "fact" by me like for instance Americans don't intake enough omega 6's I immediately jump to my little screen and start fact checking. Oh, turns out you are wrong, we in fact ingest too damn many omega 6 and not enough omega 3.. This starts cutting into the need for conversation and just makes me look like a know it all punk, but whatever I pay for the service, a service that proves to make idle conversation even more pointless. So I'd much prefer to make my searching much less conspicuous by way of a display in my glasses or even projected on my retina. I'm not afraid of the future, why are you? Augmented reality is coming soon and in my lifetime I'm sure I'll get my wish, but do I really want to wave my hands around at invisible frames of information? Probably not. Its bad enough that its becoming increasingly difficult to determine whether someone talking to nothing is crazy or just in a heated argument with their spouse. After seeing a Ted talk recently about a wireless device that sits on your head and calibrates itself to your thought pattern, a bit like the devices used in the movie strange days to record and playback thoughts, I'm convinced we may all be wearing more hats in the future. You can search, type and all that without taking your eyes off someone or blinking to click. I do really believe something William Gibson said, in the future people won't make a distinction between cyberspace and real space..thought future generations might lash out against this since it'll be common place to look up into the sky, point at a star which will give you a technically read out, video and blog links, data populated into a twitter stream (if it isn't replaced by something else), ect... you'll be able to even zoom in.. I could see how that might get annoying but that doesn't mean I wouldn't want to see that kind of future.
Here's conversation I've had a few times, the development of prosthetics. There are quite a few men and women younger then me who have been through the gulf and Afghanistan wars and not come back with all their arms and legs. So why would a 20 something want to replace a limb with an artificial device designed to resemble the real one you lost? You're liberated from the constraints of biological engineering and frankly an artificial limb isn't fooling anyone. Why not get an arm that can spin on a ball and has a docking station for an iPod? Why not make the limbs sleek like a sports car, or something out of a Chris Cunningham music video. Eventually something like this will happen, might already be happening for all I know. So for the sake of argument, what if this thinking was embraced and artificial limbs became like a tech gadget, appreciated and sought after? Would we see a future where people might become envious, maybe even be inclined to replace limbs? Just a thought.
- 3 cups of coffee blasting right off to the fourth.
Posted via LjBeetle