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Ray Parks
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On Sep 9, 2015, at 10:30 AM, Steve Smith wrote:

> I have just one word for this conversation:  
> 
>     HER
> 
> 
>> 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). 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
>> 
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