Archive for 2009
How I Said No to Drugs, And Yes to Technology
Leaving the cozy comforts of the doctor’s office — with all its benign-yet-medieval contraptions — I realized that the prescription was an A through Z (or alpha through omega) of medical comforts. I wasn’t looking forward to it. For one thing, I wasn’t a drug person. Like many people of my generation, I had sampled recreational drugs — but less as a lifestyle choice, and more as a rite of passage to growing up. With the possible exception of alcohol, my body has never taken well to drugs. I suffered so much of my childhood with an unbelievably long hay-fever season — beginning early Spring, ending late Fall — because I hated the loopy feeling induced by antihistamines, and later, when the new class of hay-fever drugs came along, the jumpy mania of pseudoephedrine. The problem I had with drugs was as much physical as it was psychological. With drugs, I really didn’t feel like myself. Yes, it’s hard being me – there are easier jobs, I am sure — but I prefer it to the alternatives.
AI Digest: 8/19/09. Augmented Reality Without the Devices
AI, IA and the place where social tech meets the two. Today: augmented reality without devices; robots in the classroom; robots learn to cheat.
AI Digest: 8/18/09. Layar Launches.
Daily links on AI, IA, and the place where social tech meets the two. Today: Layar augmented reality platform for mobile phones; robot sex workers; robots that learn like humans.
AI Digest: 8/16/09. Are We Hard Wired to Tweet?
Daily links on AI, IA and the place where social tech meets the two. Today: how we are hard wired to Twitter; robots for the home; bionic lenses; technical advances in augmented reality.
AI Digest: 8/15/09. Robots for Autism.
Daily links on AI, IA and the place where social tech meets the two. Today: robots for autism; augmented reality app for art history; robots hit by the recession.
Augmented Reality Parody Video
“A cup of coffee, the newspaper… they’re not going anywhere. They’re just getting incredibly badass … until your newspaper crashes.”
Weekly Wrap. 8/10/09: My New Augmented Reality
The big discovery for me this week was the abundance of activity in the world of augmented reality (AR). My daily digest and Thursday beat were both designed to help me explore AI (artificial intelligence), IA (intelligence augmentation) and the place where social tech meets the two. Despite my issues with the AR label, I believe that the AR market, as we know it, is indeed the place where social tech meets AI and IA.
AI Digest: 8/14/09. Your Twitter Robot Wants to Hi-5 You.
Daily links on AI, IA and the place where social tech meets the two. Today: augmented reakity for the iPhone; tourism gets a boost from augmented reality; augmented reakity and ambient intelligence; robots and autonomy; robot that monitors your twitter feed.
The Future of “Augmented Reality”? Your *Body* as the Device
As a catchphrase, “augmented reality” doesn’t help us to see future applications of this technology. I would argue that “augmented reality” speaks to the device — which today is the mobile handset. But the technology — again, better described as “augmented intelligence” — speaks to the human being, and points to an inevitable market for applications where the device is more and more about the human body.
AI Digest: 8/13/09. More People Using Pills For an Edge
Daily links on AI, IA and where social tech meets the two. Today: more people using drugs for an edge; the costs of surgical robots; why the US military has embraced robotics.
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