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We are finally, really, truly, on the cusp of a NUI explosion. We’ve seen massive improvements in the real-world usage of touch (iPhone), voice (Siri), and computer vision (Kinect) the the last few years. I think this is just the beginning. There will be huge strides made in voice and touch based input, but in my view, the area where our world will be rocked the most is in computer vision. Cameras are everywhere. They are dirt cheap. They can see things we can’t. And as amazing as the tech in Kinect is at decoding all those signals, interpreting them, and figuring out your body’s intent is, you haven’t seen anything yet. Siri is Watching You.
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When I first read Rainbows End[^] I considered it about as plausible as the galactic usenet of A Fire Upon the Deep[^]. Unfortunately I'm beginning to think he got it at least half right, with the main difference being that in addition to the corporate microtransaction skim off of everything you do the universal connection/infrastructure will lead to the pervasive surveillance tyranny that he gave as one of the ways advanced civilizations could collapse in A Deepness in the Sky[^].
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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