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Re: Hello--some ideas, some questions, some thoughts

>  wrote:
> 
> > So what other ideas, easy or farfetched, do people have for using a
> > wearable?

Just a thought about the sociological consequences...

I heard a while back that within two years, the sum of human knowledge
would be available on the Internet if you knew where to look.  So, in
theory, anyone with a wearable and a reasonably fast connection to the
Internet would have the sum of the world's knowledge with them.  All
that would be required would be a new, smarter generation of search
engine to ferret out relevant information and sort it, without giving
you any links to the pornographic sites.

Now, take it one step further.  Give a significant number of people this
capability, and combine it with the "IRC chat" feature that a lot of
people use.  You now have access, not only to the world's knowledge, but
also their opinions, in more-or-less realtime.  You have become, for all
intents and purposes, a first-generation "borg".  (And this is where the
Star Trek lawyers pop out of the walls, serve me with a thousand
summons, restraining orders, and various other writs, then pop back into
the walls.)

Possibly far-fetched, but a lot of people (including some I know) seem
to think the people they know through IRC are more important than the
people they meet face-to-face.

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