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It is a double edged sword i know.
I dont use a mobile phone or android or blackberry etc, when im away from the computer im unplugged, though i do have a little device that does mp3's FM radio etc that i sometime take with me when im out.
At home i love my internet connection, it enhances my own mental database in a way i find very gratifying, for example IMDB. often while watching a TV show i will see an actor and think i know that face, often all i need is the character name and show to find them but i dont even need that just the show's name will do. if its an episode i sometimes use the show name and an element from an episode like "macguyver yeti" and i will get the episode im after, then i find the face, and voila every show they ever did, sometimes the links are really obscure like one face i saw in the british show heartbeat, tracking it down i found my connection, he also did a single episode of space1999 which was where i was recognising him from.

I find this enhancement really satisfying, i dont need to hold all the data in my head, just the links. the online database does the real leg work.

As a kid i lived in librarys, both at school and on the weekends in the big city librarys, but the access i now have to information via the internet is magnitudes greater.

This device seems a logical next step towards an ever deeper integration with this knowledge base.
I hope it is used wisely by mankind
 
I hope my ass will be laminated when I die, just to show future generations someone that doesn't give a shit. I'm sorry for this abomination of a pun.

Same sentiments here, I finally own a smartphone, all I do with it is using it as a glorified mp3 player and text message device, at least 90% of the time. I'm not sure if I feel a disconnect between that and my wired up gaming/media station at home, but it somewhat feels like it. Sounds odd, but I want to read up on interesting things on a big screen and when I'm comfortable, not to say you cant be on your smartphone.Seems that people born in the 90ties have less of a problem with that (just from personal obersavation, that is).
 
Watching that demo again, it is almost "magic" , video phone on top of your field of vision, its almost telepathic contact, step up to an inbuilt chip thats feeding the data to your optic nerves and it will be indistinguishable from telepathy.
How many times have we seen the device use in movies where one person steps into the elevator going up, while a close friend steps out of the downward one. With this technology a visit to the CBD of any city will mean you wont miss those friends who are nearby.
The system will alert you to their proximity and tell you how to get to where they are.

To me its a glimpse of the technologically enabled enhanced reality we are heading towards

I could fill whole pages with predictions of what this tech could do.

Yes it does bring the whole hive mind collective scenario a step closer, but thats not something ive ever considered a wholly bad thing.
To me a hive mind collective doesnt mean identical nodes, just the reverse, the value of any node in a collective is the individuals unique pov.

An idea you will see in the Star treks borg, adding members to the collective only has value because of the unique cultural differences they add to it.

I would hope this technology will enhance and highlight the value of the individual, not drown it
 
I hope your dad has a very happy birthday, and no it definatly doesnt ruin anything, it makes the point that even as a part of the superset that is "us" we each have our unique social markers.

The world is changing, and we with it.

Whats coming will be difficult for a species that has for many thousands of years lived as individuals behind the eyes that see the world.

Its changed "size" for want of a better description, it was a size X large, but then along came steam engines. the world dropped from an X large to a size large.

Trains that could take you from A to B, more more importantly do so to a timetable you could plan to.
Likewise with ocean steamers, now you could go from port A to port B, and be there at a time you could predict in advance (give or take a small margin), no longer at the whim of the doldrums, which could delay you for weeks or even months.

Then air travel was here and we went from a size large to a size medium

Then the internet took us from a size medium to a size small, hand written letters that took days par avon (by air) could now be sent in real time from any part of the world.
Data files that would have filled tea chests with A4 paper sent desktop to desktop in minutes
Then audio and video in real time......

X small is coming, when the functionality of the net comes via brain computer interface chips, when each of us becomes a node in the greater network.

But as the demo showed, being a node doesnt erase your individuality, it enhances, it shares it, just as dyinsun was able to share his fathers birthday with people the world over.
As nodes we will share information from other nodes, but also share the sunsets we see, and the songs we compose on the ukulele etc.

I know many of you are repulsed by the idea, but no one will be forced into the collective, it will be a matter of personal choice.

Just as iirc Jim moseley wont use a computer, while we all do.

The generations to come will embrace this change without a second thought
 
mike said:
I hope your dad has a very happy birthday, and no it definatly doesnt ruin anything, it makes the point that even as a part of the superset that is "us" we each have our unique social markers.

The world is changing, and we with it.

Whats coming will be difficult for a species that has for many thousands of years lived as individuals behind the eyes that see the world.

Its changed "size" for want of a better description, it was a size X large, but then along came steam engines. the world dropped from an X large to a size large.

Trains that could take you from A to B, more more importantly do so to a timetable you could plan to.
Likewise with ocean steamers, now you could go from port A to port B, and be there at a time you could predict in advance (give or take a small margin), no longer at the whim of the doldrums, which could delay you for weeks or even months.

Then air travel was here and we went from a size large to a size medium

Then the internet took us from a size medium to a size small, hand written letters that took days par avon (by air) could now be sent in real time from any part of the world.
Data files that would have filled tea chests with A4 paper sent desktop to desktop in minutes
Then audio and video in real time......

X small is coming, when the functionality of the net comes via brain computer interface chips, when each of us becomes a node in the greater network.

But as the demo showed, being a node doesnt erase your individuality, it enhances, it shares it, just as dyinsun was able to share his fathers birthday with people the world over.
As nodes we will share information from other nodes, but also share the sunsets we see, and the songs we compose on the ukulele etc.

I know many of you are repulsed by the idea, but no one will be forced into the collective, it will be a matter of personal choice.

Just as iirc Jim moseley wont use a computer, while we all do.

The generations to come will embrace this change without a second thought
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