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If you haven’t looked at Wolfram|Alpha yet, you should. It isn’t the answer to life, the universe, and everything, of course, but there are plenty of times that I just want an answer, not a list of places to find the answer, just the answer, and Wolfram|Alpha has the potential to meet that need. My complaint, if I’m allowed to complain (and I am), is that the times I’m most likely to want an answer instead of a list of sources is when I’m out and about and in the middle of a conversation (or eavesdropping on an interesting one). Sure, I can pull out the iPhone, but what I really want is to be able to subvocalize my question, have that voice query go to Wolfram|Alpha, and have the answer projected on the inside of my sunglasses. Manfred Macx had it, I want it too.
Now, as long as we’ve got the subvocal mic, the voice recognition, and the magic sunglasses, I want to apply them to Google Wave as well. I’m not convinced that all collaboration fits into that paradigm, but I do think that it will work well for some types of collaboration. But I don’t want to leave it there. I should be able to include the results of my on-the-go Wolfram|Alpha queries, the audio and/or transcript of my face-to-face conversations, ditto with phone conversations. And I should be able to access all of it from my laptop, my iPhone, and my sunglasses. Furthermore, the collected knowledge across all the “waves” I’m involved in should be available as an input to my Wolfram|Alpha queries.
That’s all.
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I never liked Manfred, but I do want the glasses. 3d projection into the eyes ala Snow Crash would be fine too, while we’re at it.
Having the vast superior knowledge of Google Wave that I have based on having watched a 1 hour demo by Lars and company, I summarized it as being a “better, localized Facebook.” That’s kind of really how I see it at this point. It’s facebook done better, but decentralized. In other words, it’d be like having lots and lots and lots of much better facebooks on the planet.
Oh, by the way… once we start getting it projected onto our glasses, can we change the name from google to goggle? “what’s the periodic table symbol for argon?” “i don’t know, why don’t you goggle it?”
http://www.gizmag.com/oled-data-glasses-give-wearers-an-eyeful/11885/
I want some.
But I still want 3d graphic projection capabilities in them