Hi, Victor et al -- It puzzles me why so many wear-hard folks want the context-sensitive, wearable-specific software to be part of the OS for a wearable. Why shouldn't that be (modular, usable-on-demand) software? What is the advantage to having it in the OS (as opposed to having the machine support instant-on or re-loading, like an older laptop's resume function)? Another question: It occurs to me that wearables might be always-on devices (or at least, that's an option I might want). So do we plug them in overnight to reload their batteries, but they're in standby mode (in order to take phone calls, etc.)? Or just let our network ISP/Web host store our calls, etc., until we ourselves wake up and "wake up" our wearable? Finally, I do NOT want my primary data store to be on any network, unless by "primary data store" you mean things like all the works of Shakespeare and maps and other raw data already (pretty much) on the Web. Any information I have massaged or created (including papers ABOUT said works of Shakespeare, etc.) I want stored locally, for too many reasons to mention. (Your faith in your government's respect for your privacy is touching, but naive. They've been after mere library reading records for years, and used the terrorist attack on WTC & Pentagon to get that far.) Cheers -- Carol At 08:29 PM 11/4/02 +1100, you wrote: >Hi all, >I think the wearable's primary function should be to act as the >interface to all things electronic. I think the primary data store >should be on the network, and be accessible from the wearable wherever >you are. Of course, as you mentioned in passing, the wearable can have >your current data too, so even if you lose your network connection >you'll still be able to work. > >With regards to user interface, I think that it would be a big mistake >to try to graft the old desktop interface to the wearable. It just >doesn't match. What we need is something much more context-sensitive, >that presents options to the user depending on location, what the user >is currently doing, other people or objects present, social context, >etc. > -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/expander/false domain
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