Seems to me that the rapid progress in lightweight on-your-face AR technology, if it continues, is likely to have a bigger impact on business and society than cryptoshit and GenAI put together.
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Seems to me that the rapid progress in lightweight on-your-face AR technology, if it continues, is likely to have a bigger impact on business and society than cryptoshit and GenAI put together. Done right, we get new interfaces to business and art and games and the planet we walk around on.
It’s the only tech I see that seriously excites me.
Maybe I’m weird.
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Mark Connolly 🍻 🚴🏼♀️ (he, him, his)replied to Tim Bray last edited by
@timbray I’m more excited by personal health functionality that Apple has been introducing in its products. Potential for broad societal impact for the better.
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@timbray But how do we stop our every eye movement and micro-expression from being harvested by advertisers?
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@CppGuy Good question, but not a technology problem.
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@timbray @CppGuy But if you don't find a way to answer it, the technology is gonna end up terrible and not meeting anything like it's potential because of these other issues. We've seen it before, we know we don't get the good stuff anymore, because someone wants something to grab more out of our wallets, not make the world better for us.
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Would need to work for people with presbyopia, so something that will be useful with and without wearing glasses. -
@jannem Not just presbyopia, the glasses have to allow arbitrary prescriptions.
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@timbray every problem is (or should be) a technology problem, because if it's not — than we'll be tempted to try and change human nature which is scary as hell («1984», «minority report», «gattaca», etc.)…
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@tivasyk Nah. Politics got us universal suffrage, the end of various stupid wars, legalization of cannabis, the welfare system, etc etc. Geeks who think it's OK to ignore it are really wrong.