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srry ment to edit previous postdandymcgee wrote:Please don't double post.THe Floating Brain wrote:Intresting concept though it doesent seem practical with the cost and what happens when you get in a car accsedent with your glass car :-/
That would fucking suck! "Honey, can you bring me some orange juice?"........"No...the fridge is frozen." But i rather do like the concept of it. As with anything if this is accomplished in our lifetimes they will work out as many problems as they can before releasing it, then adjust things along the way.dandymcgee wrote:What happens when you lose power? Fuck, my bathroom mirror is stuck on a freeze frame of the weather and I can't open the damn fridge.
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I dunno about that. I took something different away from the vision of the future displayed in these videos. They seem to actually make it a point that the UI is particularly uncluttered and focused on the task at hand. There is emphasis on connecting people directly as opposed to just reading an endless stream of status updates in Facebook. Will technology continue to distract people? Sure... but there is still a lot of potential here to simplify life, not over complicate it.dandymcgee wrote:Does it look fucking awesome? Yes. Would it be fun as hell to play with? Yes. Do I think it's practical for everyday classroom use. Absolutely not. We have enough technology destroying our everyday lives already. Facebook + mobile phones is worse than the plague. It's difficult to hold a conversation with someone for more than 5 seconds without them checking their phone for messages these days.
That sounds awesome, but can easily be done with a projector.TheBuzzSaw wrote:Throw a movie on the wall!
These simply don't suit my preferred living style. I'm old enough where I appreciate the value of a family dinner, and not having to immediately check IMs the second they arrive. Watching YouTube while eating dinner simply doesn't appeal to me whatsoever.TheBuzzSaw wrote: Watch YouTube on the dinner table! Get an instant message in any room! It'd be awesome.
Falco Girgis wrote:It is imperative that I can broadcast my narcissistic commit strings to the Twitter! Tweet Tweet, bitches!
I think you're missing the point. It's not about whether we can accomplish technological activity X with current hardware; it's about the flexibility to do these things anyway. I would love it if I could get rid of all monitors/displays from my house and just the house itself for whatever I'm feeling like. I can either go into the basement and expand a movie to the entire wall, or I can go into my study and watch a movie with a mid-sized display. The technology would be more about extending my thought processes at that given moment. I can fire up a whiteboard app anyway, scribble down an idea I just got, and have it stored away in my cloud.dandymcgee wrote:That sounds awesome, but can easily be done with a projector.
I still feel you are missing the point. First off, I only said dinner table where a few people might be playing a game. I didn't necessarily mean watching videos while eating food.dandymcgee wrote:These simply don't suit my preferred living style. I'm old enough where I appreciate the value of a family dinner, and not having to immediately check IMs the second they arrive. Watching YouTube while eating dinner simply doesn't appeal to me whatsoever.
While I'm not fond of the idea of having massive amounts of ridiculously absurd technologies in my home, I would very much enjoy playing with such devices in the workplace. I can see many of these things increasing productivity quite a bit (with a few "parental" controls). With some work, perhaps it is possible to integrate them a bit more subtly in an educational environment as well.
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Ahaha, pretty much my thoughts on the subject!dandymcgee wrote:Does it look fucking awesome? Yes. Would it be fun as hell to play with? Yes. Do I think it's practical for everyday classroom use. Absolutely not. We have enough technology destroying our everyday lives already. Facebook + mobile phones is worse than the plague. It's difficult to hold a conversation with someone for more than 5 seconds without them checking their phone for messages these days.
true thatGroundUpEngine wrote:Ahaha, pretty much my thoughts on the subject!dandymcgee wrote:Does it look fucking awesome? Yes. Would it be fun as hell to play with? Yes. Do I think it's practical for everyday classroom use. Absolutely not. We have enough technology destroying our everyday lives already. Facebook + mobile phones is worse than the plague. It's difficult to hold a conversation with someone for more than 5 seconds without them checking their phone for messages these days.
