Think motion patterns, rather than absolute grids. Apparently, everyone has a distictive way to make that figure-8. The combination may even provide a medium-grade access control. This is even more useful when phones and wallets are combined. We need to think beyond buttons and their 2.01 - D rendering on screens. Just like previous generations did have to learn to deal with buttons. Motion patterns are closer to normal human infrastructure anyway. Think learning to play a musical instrument. Or even to learn to talk. Especially in the latter is no real "grid" precision.
Motion recognition would enable a very wide range of options without having to step through tedious menu hierarchies. And without dozens of buttons. So all the "(phone) real estate" can be spent on display.
Once 99% of the customer base carries a mobile (phone+PDA+GPS+wallet+tracking device;)... etc.) with a high quality touch screen that can display pictures of the available options of the closest "sale bot", there is no longer a business need for artificial intelligence. I believe this is feasible in a few years time.
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Just as asian eyes and noses are an adaption to low temperatures, this other body part had to be protected from freezing off.
Market value will be a few bowls of rice pretty soon
Surveillance information can also be sold to organized crime who can use it for instance, to plan burglaries.
The Nazis synthesized oil products using coal and were thus able to keep the war machine going.
One worked the way you stated (Little Boy), the other worked by imploding a sphere with a spherical cavity at its centre (Fat Man)
..to block out the flashing advertisement frenzy in urban areas. Maybe that will let us hold on to our last shred of sanity.
Think motion patterns, rather than absolute grids. Apparently, everyone has a distictive way to make that figure-8. The combination may even provide a medium-grade access control. This is even more useful when phones and wallets are combined. We need to think beyond buttons and their 2.01 - D rendering on screens. Just like previous generations did have to learn to deal with buttons. Motion patterns are closer to normal human infrastructure anyway. Think learning to play a musical instrument. Or even to learn to talk. Especially in the latter is no real "grid" precision. Motion recognition would enable a very wide range of options without having to step through tedious menu hierarchies. And without dozens of buttons. So all the "(phone) real estate" can be spent on display.
Once 99% of the customer base carries a mobile (phone+PDA+GPS+wallet+tracking device ;)... etc.) with a high quality touch screen that can display pictures of the available options of the closest "sale bot", there is no longer a business need for artificial intelligence. I believe this is feasible in a few years time.
I don't see how this can be sold in a western culture given the enormous potential for lame jokes.