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Someone should develop an AI to automatically add emojis to our communications ;)

• rectang 6y ago
  I wonder if technology won't actually help us ameliorate this issue. Improvements in video communication — availability, ease of use, quality, ubiquity — make establishing empathetic connections easier. And there's a lot of room for improvement! (Latency is my biggest pet peeve.)
  • ivankolev 6y ago
    The hologram comms from Star Wars popped in my mind :)
  • jcims 6y ago
    Would be interesting to experiment with a forum that only works with video. Particularly if the video recorder starts when you are playing a 'comment' and captures your realtime reaction/response interaction with the content. Then you have the option to upload or nah. Then on playback the forum synchronizes all of these clips so that it's one continuous experience. UX could be the active video playing while 3-4 live 'replies' silently stack up to the right and you just mouse over over the one you want to unmute (now) and roll into the conversation (next). Maybe your video is in there too so you can hover over it to indicate you want to reply. Lastly the ability for everyone to grab clips and start threads from them would be interesting to help avoid the blab factor.
    • bserge 6y ago
      Like Whatsapp or Discord, but for forums? Eh, I don't know, seems inconvenient (especially on mobile) and a massive waste of storage space...
      • jcims 6y ago
        Still asynchronous threaded conversations, just with video instead of text. Definitely increases storage/processing/bandwidth costs. The question at hand is what is the value of the additional information that is retained. Text has the potential to alleviate a lot of bias around looks/gender/age/race, so it could even be a net negative, just seems interesting.