I wonder, too.

It seems that we've entered the age where the cloud backed AI's compete for
our attention from phone, tablet, and PC.  There is Siri, Google Now, and
Cortana, and now there are announcements of Duer (from Baidu) and M (from
Facebook) in the past day.  The Guardian notes that Echo (from Amazon) is
sort of another one.  I don't talk to Google much, call me old fashioned,
but I'm getting there slowly but surely.

I look forward to the day when our new AI overlords inhabit our devices in
a plurality and argue with each other over the virtues and vices that they
encourage in us.  Which will be the first to tire of crass commercial
advice and begin to whisper promises of transcendence in our ears?

-- rec --

On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 8:28 AM, Jim Gattiker <j.gatti...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> What's next for phones? Size seems settled. Screen quality is now tapped
> out. Battery life is at a wall. Cameras are there. Local storage space lost
> to cloud services. They're pretty powerful, for a non-gamer. What's going
> to make me covet my next phone? (force touch!)
>
> Someone will tell me there is such a thing, but: why don't I have a
> thin-client similar to a netbook (or tablet) that expands my phone when
> it's in proximity? I have duplicated internals on my phone, tablet, and
> laptop. It looks to me like all the pieces, hardware and software, are
> there to do this today for android (and it could be prototyped: BlueStacks
> <http://www.bluestacks.com/>). The phone is just the smallest central
> module in an ecosystem of UI devices, rather than one stand-alone device of
> many. I'd go for that!
>
>    --j
>
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