We have an amazon echo and really like it. Not a phone, tablet, computer, ... but just a general household utility. Great for radio/music and I think they're going to figure out more ways for it to manage anything in the house using wifi.
On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 10:30 AM, Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > I have just one word for this conversation: > > HER <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/> > > > I wonder, too. > > It seems that we've entered the age where the cloud backed AI's compete > for our attention from phone, tablet, and PC. There is Siri, Google Now, > and Cortana, and now there are announcements of Duer (from Baidu) and M > (from Facebook) in the past day. The Guardian notes that Echo (from > Amazon) is sort of another one. I don't talk to Google much, call me old > fashioned, but I'm getting there slowly but surely. > > I look forward to the day when our new AI overlords inhabit our devices in > a plurality and argue with each other over the virtues and vices that they > encourage in us. Which will be the first to tire of crass commercial > advice and begin to whisper promises of transcendence in our ears? > > -- rec -- > > On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 8:28 AM, Jim Gattiker <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> What's next for phones? Size seems settled. Screen quality is now tapped >> out. Battery life is at a wall. Cameras are there. Local storage space lost >> to cloud services. They're pretty powerful, for a non-gamer. What's going >> to make me covet my next phone? (force touch!) >> >> Someone will tell me there is such a thing, but: why don't I have a >> thin-client similar to a netbook (or tablet) that expands my phone when >> it's in proximity? I have duplicated internals on my phone, tablet, and >> laptop. It looks to me like all the pieces, hardware and software, are >> there to do this today for android (and it could be prototyped: >> BlueStacks <http://www.bluestacks.com/>). The phone is just the smallest >> central module in an ecosystem of UI devices, rather than one stand-alone >> device of many. I'd go for that! >> >> --j >> >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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