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If the personal computer counts, do mobile phones count? I would certainly think so, except all those high quality sensors have been hindered by app stores and
by chubot 1y ago
If the personal computer counts, do mobile phones count?
I would certainly think so, except all those high quality sensors have been hindered by app stores and subpar apps, imo :-(
I would like to hear some uplifting stories about creative things people do with their phones, rather than consume media
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- chubot 1y agoI almost think deep learning and mobile phones had an analogous and surprising applicability Deep learning failed to solve self-driving. In 2012 people said self driving would probably be ubiquitous by 2018, and it definitely would be by 2020 Instead we got chat bots in 2022 - that turned out to be the killer app, certainly the most widely adopted one Likewise, instead of mobile phones being used as an aid in the physical world, they became the world For example, the media they transmit seems to be how elections are won and lost now. It’s the device by which people form impressions of huge parts of the world
- Uehreka 1y agoSpeaking as someone who just rebuked another commenter for daring to suggest Dijkstra’s algorithm should be on that list… yeah you may have a point. Mobile phones probably belong in the S-Tier with the Internet. In 2012-2014 I lived in Thailand right as the Smartphone Wave was cresting. I saw people who had never owned a computer leapfrog laptops and get online for the first time (on their own terms) with a cheap smartphone. And sure, many of them just went straight to instagram, but also a generation of working class Thai nerds got access to Wikipedia at their leisure, and that has no doubt led to uncountable good things. > I would like to hear some uplifting stories about creative things people do with their phones, rather than consume media Ever since the iPhone X introduced infrared face tracking I’ve been using them in live theatre shows to drive digital characters. Here’s me and my friend Jordan playing 3 “AI Gods” during the Baltimore Rock Opera Society’s 2019 show Space Kumite using an iPhone X for facial motion capture: https://youtu.be/wSYWC1GCZA8?si=RtWDODFwHxEnaB9u https://youtu.be/wSYWC1GCZA8?si=RtWDODFwHxEnaB9u
- alganet 1y agoMiniaturization is a common trend. Once modern computers appeared, smartphones became just a matter of time. One could say that sucessful miniaturization is one of the tells that something is more likely to stick around.
- chubot 1y agoThank you, great example of creativity with a phone! I used to download and play with the music apps, but I didn't like how the music was "stuck" there
- spoaceman7777 1y agothe majority of global internet users access the internet via a phone.