The fourth dimension is time, eh? So, which of the following is the third dimension: length, width, depth? Which one is the first dimension?
You can say that time is a dimension, but it shouldn't be associated with a unique index.
Folks, one thing I think is being missed about this technology is that is turns something that used to take thought and planning into something that is implicit, routine, and expected. In this sense, and in many of the privacy concerns legitimately brought up here, this device is similar to a cell phone.
There was a time, long ago, when you needed more than a vague idea of where a restaurant was and its phone number before you left your apartment to get some food. Today, though, we just expect that we'll call them with our cell if we get lost along the way. I've forgotten how I used to plan to meet people before cell phones made that problem trivial.
In some tomorrow, when wearing this (or something like it--it sure doesn't have to be MS!), it'll become natural to turn to your personal digital recorder to assist you to remember any fact or detail, and then we'll all find it hard to believe that we were able to do without it.
This has always been my personal gripe about PDAs, and I wonder if other people feel the same way. They're great until you realize how much time you spend recording your information, and most often, the cost of taking the time to use the PDA is more than the benefit of having the info recorded. This is why I think this technology will succeed--because it drives the cost of recording information, in terms of time distracted and cognitive burden, to zip.
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The fourth dimension is time, eh? So, which of the following is the third dimension: length, width, depth? Which one is the first dimension? You can say that time is a dimension, but it shouldn't be associated with a unique index.
There was a time, long ago, when you needed more than a vague idea of where a restaurant was and its phone number before you left your apartment to get some food. Today, though, we just expect that we'll call them with our cell if we get lost along the way. I've forgotten how I used to plan to meet people before cell phones made that problem trivial.
In some tomorrow, when wearing this (or something like it--it sure doesn't have to be MS!), it'll become natural to turn to your personal digital recorder to assist you to remember any fact or detail, and then we'll all find it hard to believe that we were able to do without it.
This has always been my personal gripe about PDAs, and I wonder if other people feel the same way. They're great until you realize how much time you spend recording your information, and most often, the cost of taking the time to use the PDA is more than the benefit of having the info recorded. This is why I think this technology will succeed--because it drives the cost of recording information, in terms of time distracted and cognitive burden, to zip.