From: Brian Atkins (brian@posthuman.com)
Date: Thu Dec 21 2000 - 23:50:51 MST
So that's why they wear those really long coats in The Matrix.. ah so
"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" wrote:
>
> Adrian Tymes wrote:
> >
> > Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de wrote:
> > >
> > > If you're talking wearable hardware, I'll be very happy with a fannypack
> > > and a decent headset/headup. Sewing stuff into cloth is silly.
> >
> > You would, but I'm not aiming for early adoptors. I'm aiming for the
> > mass market, which means aesthetics become part of the functionality:
> > they look wierd or are at all uncomfortable, and they're as good as
> > busted right off the manufacturing line. You can hide a lot in a vest,
> > and make it look slick in many social environments.
>
> Interesting. So, we could see a situation where the programmers start
> buying business suits again, because the suits are the only wearable items
> expensive enough - and voluminous enough - to contain decent-sized
> computers. Male geeks wearing suits, female geeks wearing three layers of
> gowns... computer modeling of what people look like under their clothes...
> 900Mhz encrypted flirting... wearable computing could have an interesting
> effect on sexual morality.
>
> -- -- -- -- --
> Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
> Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
-- Brian Atkins Director, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence http://www.singinst.org/
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