Selected quotes:
Well before you were born, you were known to the algorithm. You’ll realize that images of yourself are a kind of social currency. An unobtrusive bracelet or smart watch tracks your performance. Kids often tell him AI-enabled technologies are … creepy. It tells you when you’re near In-N-Out. Later on you realize that you were the only real human in that entire room. Everybody else was AI. You might be able to rent out each of your fingernails as an ad for social media. The home will finally be what Le Corbusier imagined: a machine for living in. What is the plan for tomorrow? They know ahead of time, even before you do, that you’re thirsty. Perhaps it’s better to let the toilet or the mirror do the tracking continuously. Faraway loved ones can visit by digital double.
But by now, maybe the agent is no longer your friend.
Maybe, at last, it is you.
If you have a digital twin, we hope it’s not a deepfake.
No thanks.
And speaking of electronic ass-monitoring, I’m reminded of this gem from 10 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJklHwoYgBQ
So little has changed since then!
she’s calling a“baby handler”—picture an exoskeleton crossed with a car seat. It’s a late-night soothing machine that rocks, supplies pre-pumped breast milk, and maybe offers a bidet-like “cleaning and drying situation.”For your children, perhaps, this is their first experience of being close to a machine.
Ah yes, famously the worst part of having children: touching them. Urgh. At least we can be pretty certain that this sort of thing will have no negative psychological impacts on babies and young children, who are famously disinterested in their parents, and neglect isn’t a thing!
Or, once the baby arrives, in nipple stickers that nursing parents could apply to track biofluid exchange. If the baby has trouble latching, maybe the sticker’s capacitive touch sensors could help the parent find a better position.
Do you know what the worst thing about breast feeding is? It is hard to monetise! Women just excrete milk! For free! Anyway, what if we could interpose a disposable data-harvesting device into the process, maybe on a subscription basis?
Do you know what the worst thing about breast feeding is? It is hard to monetise! Women just excrete milk! For free! Anyway, what if we could interpose a disposable data-harvesting device into the process, maybe on a subscription basis?
Almost sociopathic enough to get hired by Nestle.
Will the rectum monitor keep track of the duration of my nocturnal erections? I need to find out if I can hit 179 minutes to flex on 18-year olds.
I seriously wonder, do any of the folks with the “AR glasses to assist repair” thing ever actually repair anything, or do they get their ideas of how you repair stuff from computer games?
I repair anything I can and I think the AR assistance sounds awesome. Especially when its for something I’ve never tackled before… In fact for me personally, it sounds like its by far the best use case of AR
getting normal manuals detailed enough to be useful is hard enough, forget about manuals compatible with AR set of the month
Exactly. It goes something like "remember when you were fixing a washing machine and you didn’t know what some part was and there was no good guide for fixing it, no schematic, no nothing? Wouldn’t it be awesome if 100x of the work that wasn’t put into making documentation was not put into making VR overlays?
Isn’t that one of the enterprise cases where it’s actually been used?
Having schematics directly overlayed onto something I’m working on seems pretty helpful to me.
Back when I was still on Reddit, I encountered a post saying that they are used in airplane maintenance. They might have specified that their experience was with the military or I might be misremembering that part.
I have no experience in this area and cannot vouch for the veracity of the claim, just wanted to let you know that I have seen something that supports your theory.
edit: Sentences make way more sense when you use the right word and not a completely incorrect one.
have you ever done any kind of fine-detail repair on anything? electronics, something with tiny screws, fixing paint on a decal… anything like that?
minority report floating holograms sure might be useful for this, “random-ass non specialised hardware shoved on your face” is decidedly more of a diceroll
Well the OP talks about a fridge.
I think if anything it’s even worse for tiny things with tiny screws.
What kind of floating hologram is there gonna be that’s of any use, for something that has no schematic and the closest you have to a repair manual is some guy filming themselves taking apart some related product once?
It looks cool in a movie because it’s a 20 second clip in which one connector gets plugged, and tens of person hours were spent on it by very talented people who know how to set up a scene that looks good and not just visually noisy.
I think he means repairs like washing machines, cars etc. It’s all very well looking up videos or pics of how to repair stuff, but often the video isn’t clear or fine quality enough
An overlaid graphic on whatever you were repairing would be fucking amazing for some of the stuff I do
