Yes, in another one hundred years they may be printing new eyes on three D printers. Then we would not need jaws.
-----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim Pursley Sent: Monday, May 11, 2015 7:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] The Future of Jaws 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/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
