12-29-2021, 07:15 AM | #21 | |
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The Manhattan Project was very secret, but once it had got started, the people working on it rapidly became sure that as well as nuclear weapons, nuclear power for ships and electricity generation, and the manufacture of useful isotopes for many purposes were practical. There were other ideas that were not practical, or not worth their costs, but it was fairly clear that things were changing. There are also plenty of things that are expected to be, or promoted as being transformative, but which don't work out, for assorted reasons. Around the year 2000, there was a new family of microprocessors from Intel and HP, with the brand name "Itanium," which looked very powerful, but turned out to be impractical to use effectively. They found a single market niche, and stayed in production for about twenty years, with sales in the tens of thousands of processors per year. This was a major failure, given that the plan was to replace the familiar Intel/AMD x86 processors.
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12-29-2021, 09:07 AM | #22 |
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At least. TL10 (or even TL10^) might be more likely. I still don't see why anyone would want such a thing though.
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12-30-2021, 06:07 AM | #24 | ||
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But on the other hand, I think we can speculate about what newly introduced or potential technologies might have that role. And that seems to be what this thread is doing. Quote:
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12-30-2021, 06:48 PM | #25 |
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Basically when considering the first issue is that there will be nothing they can do that cant be done with a handheld device. The difference, of course is that they can do all those things without occupying a hand, or entirely blocking your regular vision. And possibly a bit less inconspicuously.
So what can it actually help with? 1. Recording or transmitting video from eye level. And given that capability annoying other people just by looking at them since they'll frequently suspect you of recording them if they recognise what you are wearing. 2. Targeting assistance as it can tell you exactly where your smart gun is pointed making every firefight a more videogame-like experience. 3. Navigational assistance as it displays a translucent minimap of your surroundings. Making every walking tour a more videogame-like experience. 4. Facial recognition allowing it to tag everyone identifiable with a name and perhaps a tag saying some significant fact about them. 5. Text answers to the kind of questions you ask Siri 6. Assistance to technicians by conveniently labeling components and pointing out visually detectable damage you might overlook. Last edited by David Johnston2; 12-31-2021 at 07:58 PM. |
12-31-2021, 12:55 PM | #26 | |
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You also didn't mention a classic AR problem: constant, targeted, intrusive advertising. And also the idea that you could have the glasses block visual data you find distasteful. |
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01-02-2022, 09:37 AM | #27 | |
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(EDIT: It occurs to me that, from time to time, you run into fictional societies that consider going around without a mask to be roughly equivalent to walking around naked. Ubiquitous recordings from smartglasses could be used to justify such a cultural quirk in an ultra-tech setting.) Of course, then we get into the issue that many people would rather not have to be masked up every time they go out. One potentially-interesting option would be a legal one backed up by programming - a person who hasn't consented to be recorded (or who has opted out, depending on which way the law goes) automatically has their face blurred (or outright replaced with an obvious placeholder) and recognition data expunged from the recording. This could be done with facial recognition and a database check ("This face isn't in my database of people who consent to recordings/is in my database of people who have opted out of recordings, so I'll replace the face with a randomized cartoon one"), or perhaps people who consent to being recorded do so by carrying around an RFID chip or a "Record Me!" QR code on their clothing (or those who opt out do something similar) . This automated censorship would undoubtedly be reversible for law enforcement purposes, although a particularly privacy-conscious society would avoid this, which would also mean it would be possible to remove it illegally - and even if it's not reversible, people will invariably make illegal modifications to their devices to prevent the censorship in the first place. So, those people who are really big on their personal privacy would just mask up whenever feasible.
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01-02-2022, 04:18 PM | #30 |
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Even before COVID and facemasks, gait recognition has been in development. Doesn't need to see a face, so provides an alternative - it's just not great in terms of human verification.
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