We can hope that in 84 years there wonn't be anymore blindness. -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Ferrin Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 8:10 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] The Future of Jaws
This thread needs to stop as it is ridiculous to wonder what is going to happen in 84 years. Like I said before I won't be managing a mailing list when my birthday cake is crushed under 140 candles. David Ferrin A complex system that does not work is invariably found to have evolved from a simpler system that worked perfectly. -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nicole Valicia Thompson-Andrews Sent: Monday, May 11, 2015 8:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] The Future of Jaws That would be good.Eye transplants, who knows. On 5/11/15, Holger Fiallo <[email protected]> wrote: > AI or cloning could replace eyes that are damage or genetic surgery > could fix the problem with vision. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nicole Valicia Thompson-Andrews > Sent: Monday, May 11, 2015 7:48 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/ > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2015.0.5941 / Virus Database: 4342/9728 - Release Date: > 05/08/15 > > > > Holger Fiallo > > > 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/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
