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I don't think we've fully appreciated yet that "phones" are really the true embodiment of the original Personal Digital Assistant, i.e. an external brain that w
by toyg 4y ago
I don't think we've fully appreciated yet that "phones" are really the true embodiment of the original Personal Digital Assistant, i.e. an external brain that will augment yours in any circumstance.
Any portable device has been (or will soon be) replaced by "phones".
- etrautmann 4y agoReally? I think the whole world already gets this, and even the conversation seems somewhat quaint at this point.
- jrimbault 4y agoYes, I'm constantly referring to my "phone" as my "brain's third hemisphere". It makes people chuckle but no one stops at that joke. It's completely "in the culture".
- KineticLensman 4y agoMy metacortex
- DonHopkins 4y agoMy late friend Hugh Daniel used to refer to his Bihn's backpack as his "LSD", for "Life Support Device". Like when we were leaving the house he'd shout "Oh no, I forgot my LSD! I'll be right back!" then run back in and fetch his backpack. But now my smartphone is my LSD.
- personjerry 4y agoI can't wait for the iGlock
- chii 4y agowhy would you get an iGlock, when there's the iLaser?
- Yizahi 4y agoApple is working on that, relentlessly thinning and sharpening their phones :)
- tenebrisalietum 4y agothen the iSwitch
- Moissanite 4y agoAnd the enterprise equivalent: Amazon Orbital Bombardment (with MongoDB compatibility)
- orthoxerox 4y ago> with MongoDB compatibility Does that mean no encryption and no authentication by default?
- martin_a 4y agoI wonder how many people will accidently nuke themselves with that, because they forget to set up their geofencing or whatever before activating it. You'll read it on HN first!
- ohgodplsno 4y agoBut it's okay, because of their multiple-tenancy practices, they only nuked the US offices, and a remote engineer noticed that the CI servers were down. He then drove halfway through the country to crawl through radioactive waste, just so he could plug back in the ethernet cable.
- martin_a 4y agoSounds like great material for a "Doing XY: What we've learned"-corporate blog post! Looking forward to that!
- Moissanite 4y agoI'm inclined to wait for the fly.io guys to weaponize their platform; the blog posts they produce are just so much higher quality.
- pimlottc 4y agoThey're working on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXh3EfX_CqA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXh3EfX_CqA
- s3000 4y agoDo we still use phones if Meta is right and life shifts into VR? Devices don't have to be portable if people rarely leave home.
- int_19h 4y agoOr maybe it's the other way around - the less people leave home, the more uncomfortable they'll feel outside of it, and the more they'll want some piece of tech to assist them. If you're spending most of your time in a virtual reality where, say, a map can be conjured with a simple gesture, you'd want something approximating that IRL, no?
- neoberg 4y agothank god meta is not right
- yamtaddle 4y agoAll these VR efforts are anticipating hardware advancements that make AR/VR glasses that are similar in size and form to sunglasses. I can't believe any of these companies (Microsoft, Apple, Nintendo, Facebook, et c.) genuinely think that AR on a phone/handheld or big ol' VR goggles are going to take off, especially since both aren't exactly new and both remain very niche—but solve that hardware problem, and those glasses will, 100% for-sure, be the next "smartphone" in terms of changing the role of computing in our lives, and any company not ready for it risks being left behind.
- DonHopkins 4y agoThey're waterproof and they have vigorous haptic feedback now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJZtMDM6uVc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJZtMDM6uVc