From: Felix Ungman (felix@hu.se)
Date: Wed Jun 04 1997 - 15:40:19 MDT
Eugene Leitl:
>Why not? With a good headup, I can read while walking on the street. I
>can let the machine read my mail, and dictate responses. There is lots of
>small, irritating waits which can be utilized much better.
I simply can't walk and read a book at the same time (not without hurting
myself). (OK, I would like to fix that, but I don't see how wearables is the
solution.)
>Making tree killing obsolete is impossible without a good head-up, and a head
>tracker, and both are impossible without a wearable. I'd kill for a good wearable.
Paper will not be reaplaced by wearables. Paper will be replaced by nothing
less than Paper++. It must match price, resolution, weight and size. Paper
is actually one of most impressive technologies we have today. But lets get
back to wearables...
>Me, I simply don't get mad. But the Newt2000 is just an expensive toy.
>(The Newt130 is an unusable prototype.)
Agreed (but I like them both :-). But why is the Newt130 unusable?
Because it doesn't communicate well. It's just a fancy filofax. But the
Real filofax is built on the superior paper technology, which makes
it much better. A real filofax doesn't pretend to do email. I think the
Newton story well shows that it's connectivity that matters, not
computation.
>Speak for yourself. Working in the park, in the meadow, in the mountains.
>Untethered.
Or as Churchill would have put it, "We shall work on to the end. We shall work
in France and on the seas and oceans; we shall work growing MHz and growing
Mbit in the air; We shall compile our code whatever the cost may be; we shall
work on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and on the hills; We shall
never disconnect".
Felix Ungman
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