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I am around your age, and while I _personally_ agree with you, I am also not sure about people that are born now: my friends' kids are playing with iPads and An

by ktamura 11y ago

I am around your age, and while I _personally_ agree with you, I am also not sure about people that are born now: my friends' kids are playing with iPads and Android tablets (honestly, more iPads) just like I was playing with picture books, and looking at them interact with these digital devices, I have the suspicion that their generation will have a completely different relationship with digital devices for reading and beyond. Of course, they are also given books in print and interact with them as well, but I feel that the verdict is still out there about how that generation will feel about print when they are our age. That's a long-winded way of saying that neither of us is young anymore, and we _might_ be on our way to be less indicative of the future and more reminiscent of the past (Just _maybe_).

noam87 11y ago
My hope at least, is that this is a transitory phase. Once AI gets good enough at interpreting voice commands, handwriting, and physical gestures, there will be less and less of a need to interact with the ugly glowing screen. Hopefully with the next generation of sensors, projectors and materials, and AI, the digital will just get out of the way and assist when needed (or seamlessly blend with the physical world). Immersive tech is cool, but invisible tech is even cooler. Wouldn't it be cool if you could manage your AWS instances from a beautiful garden out in the country, using nothing but your voice and some gestures and without having to look at a clunky old laptop (maybe a small notebook-like pad of e-ink, or perhaps an image projected from your watch). Or when James Joyce uses a big word on your physical copy, you can just point at it and hear the definition. Or when writing down notes on your notebook, with pen and paper, your Google watch can instantly recognize an event and set an alarm. That's the future I want to live in. In some ways, that's the world the first technologists envisioned: one in which technology does the dreadful for us, not a world in which we're glued onto a screen consuming ads and producing clickbait 24/7.

by ktamura 11y ago

noam87 11y ago

My hope at least, is that this is a transitory phase. Once AI gets good enough at interpreting voice commands, handwriting, and physical gestures, there will be less and less of a need to interact with the ugly glowing screen. Hopefully with the next generation of sensors, projectors and materials, and AI, the digital will just get out of the way and assist when needed (or seamlessly blend with the physical world). Immersive tech is cool, but invisible tech is even cooler. Wouldn't it be cool if you could manage your AWS instances from a beautiful garden out in the country, using nothing but your voice and some gestures and without having to look at a clunky old laptop (maybe a small notebook-like pad of e-ink, or perhaps an image projected from your watch). Or when James Joyce uses a big word on your physical copy, you can just point at it and hear the definition. Or when writing down notes on your notebook, with pen and paper, your Google watch can instantly recognize an event and set an alarm. That's the future I want to live in. In some ways, that's the world the first technologists envisioned: one in which technology does the dreadful for us, not a world in which we're glued onto a screen consuming ads and producing clickbait 24/7.