David Barbour <dmbarb...@gmail.com> writes: > On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 1:48 AM, Casey Ransberger > <casey.obrie...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> >> The computer is going to keep getting smaller. How do you program a phone? >> It would be nice to be able to just talk to it, but it needs to be able -- >> in a programming context -- to eliminate ambiguity by asking me questions >> about what I meant. Or *something.* >> > > Well, once computers get small enough that we can easily integrate them > with our senses and gestures, it will become easier to program again. > > Phones are an especially difficult target (big hands and fingers, small > screens, poor tactile feedback, noisy environments). But something like > Project Glass or AR glasses could project information onto different > surfaces - screens the size of walls, effectively - or perhaps the size of > our moleskin notebooks [1]. Something like myo [2] would support pointer > and gesture control without much interfering with our use of hands.
There is a distinction between "programming a mobile phone" and "programming when mobile". I can easily program my phone right now: I plug it into a USB port, bring up the USB network, SSH into it, apt-get some tools and off I go. I can't program easily when I'm in the middle of a field, with no infrastructure around me other than the phone and possibly a wireless network connection. Believe me, on-screen keyboards and bash don't play well together ;) This is where ad-hoc programming like speech commands become interesting. Cheers, Chris _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
