Good God. By that time, who knows, maybe synthetic eyes or eye transplants will make assistive technology more or less unnecessary. Either way, doubt Jaws or what we would recognize as Jaws will be in existance at that point.
-----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nicole Valicia Thompson-Andrews Sent: Monday, May 11, 2015 5:49 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] The Future of Jaws Why wouldn't we need it? On 5/11/15, Jim Pursley <[email protected]> wrote: > I remember, in one of my professional iterations, the book Libraries In > The Year q2000 by a professor named Licklider. This was 1970 and > library studies departments at universities had begun to add > "Information Science" to their names. Come the mid 90's and UC > Berkeley's South Hall was no longer the home of the School of > Librarianship. It was the School of Networking and Machine Languages or > something of that ilk. The internet had all but gutted the basic > intermediary function of libraries. Licklider got the networking and > information retrieval functions and individualized education functions > right but he kept intact the basic structure and function of the library > (much as NLS is for us) with a lot of modern bells and whistles. He did > not predict the sweeping changes the internet has brought, followed by > wireless communication and now artificial intelligence/machine > learning. I don't think JAWS 100 or anything like it will exist. I > think that physical limitations will largely be overcome by the time > another 85 years or so passes. Mechanical sense organs or clones of > healthy living ones) will level the getting on with life playing field. > Look how much progress has been made since Helen Keller's day. If you > think that like the universe knowledge is expanding at an ever faster > rate then my simple ideas will surely be left in the dust. Yet I hazard > that we'll still be basically the humans we are, if we last another 85 > years without a war to end all humans. > > On 5/11/2015 9:26 PM, Holger Fiallo wrote: >> Maybe it will not be call jaws 100? To get with the times it need to >> have a name that shows that we do more than use it for workowork. >> >> -----Original Message----- From: Nicole Valicia Thompson-Andrews >> Sent: Monday, May 11, 2015 7:15 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [JAWS-Users] The Future of Jaws >> > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > -- Pen Name: Mellissa Green Twitter @abluegreenunivs website www.abluegreenuniverse.com For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
