My answer to the Echo, as above, is: why is it a separate device? It should be an adjunct UI device to my phone.
--j On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 10:37 AM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> > > > ============================================================ > 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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