Re: [FRIAM] the next phone

[Steve Smith]

I have just one word for this conversation:      HER 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). 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 ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com

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