re augmented memory, from 22 years ago, http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~rhodes/Papers/wear-ra-personalt...
Is what got me interested in wearable computing.
Digital Tools I Wish Existed
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#22There was recently a post in HN called "There is too much stuff". It revolved around the massive amount of unnecessary physical goods we need to shift through to find what we are looking for. I believe the same thing happens with content.
There is way more content out there that I would like to consume than my time allows. Is not rare to make my way through an article or a 1 hour talk and think 'oh well, that was a waste of time'. Or content that has pieces that I do find interesting, but is so padded that makes the whole investment not worth it. Currently I am reading Domain Drive Design, and I didn't find insights that I consider useful after well over a third into the book (500+ pages total).
I do believe that content curation is one of the most promising fields in the near future, and it will involve a mix of human and technological solutions. This might include not only the act of recommending content, but possibly modifying said content for the user (e.g. summaries, highlights, etc.). In comparison, current recommendation systems are a pure joke.
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#23> Content is published in a variety of formats including but not limited to images, sound files, videos, Google Drive docs, diagrams, long-from paywalled articles, PDFs, powerpoint presentations, and base 64 encoded blobs. One of the great disappointments I’ve had working in tech for 20 years now has been the way we’ve transformed the entire spectrum of human expression, which includes wildly different forms of art a…
> Every time I hear a child say they want to grow up to be a “content creator,” Do kids really say this? If so I'm going to kill myself.
I got a rope if you want, and yes, where I used to live at least, most kids wanted to be a "steamer" or a "youtuber"
there is no hope for humanity I'm afraid
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#24There was recently a post in HN called "There is too much stuff". It revolved around the massive amount of unnecessary physical goods we need to shift through to find what we are looking for. I believe the same thing happens with content. There is way more content out there that I would like to consume than my time allows. Is not rare to make my way through an article or a 1 hour talk and think 'oh well, that was a w…
Off topic, but is Domain Driven Design suddenly coming into vogue? I just heard of it for the first time this week and went into a rabbit hole of research. I see that the books are not new by any means. I've heard and seen it pop up so many times just this week, including from your comment!
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#25This is what I want as well.
I feel as if this is the kind of thing Google might still be able to get right; "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful" is still the company's mission, after all, although it's been diluted by ten years in the wilderness of developing products in what seems like all directions.
If Google had not strayed Keep would be this. Assistant would be this. Honestly Assistant and Keep would be one and the same thing, perhaps: a single Assistant that is about remembering what you need to remember, finding what you need to find, helping you do what you need to do. This parallel universe Assistant has an open API that nerds like you and me can really use to set up complex workflows. We then are able to share our workflows with each other, and eventually perhaps even build products (apps) on this platform for the less technical users. Split the revenue in an Assistant Store. It could smoothly diversify into Mechanical Turk territory, but with more and better automation.
While Google is asleep, startups can revolt.
Disclaimer: I work for Google but the opinions expressed here are personal and not those of my employer.
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#26There are only few types of digital formats I use really. Text, audio, still photo, video and maybe 3d description of a place or an object, but the last one is still quite marginal.
It would be nice make arbitrary collections of these, add metadata such as place, time and author and send them to other users or bots.
If you want to go crazy you could add permissions and encryption which would enable private conversation and message board / social media style structures. Pick boring standard file formats that are "good enough" for consumer use (one lossy and one lossless for each media)
Maybe I am dreaming of hypertext. The webserver-client structure of internet makes things easily very siloed and the ways to share documents you come a cross in the net are very clunky because everyone needs to reinvent the format and the player for everything more complicated than simple text or image.
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#27This is what I want as well. I feel as if this is the kind of thing Google might still be able to get right; "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful" is still the company's mission, after all, although it's been diluted by ten years in the wilderness of developing products in what seems like all directions. If Google had not strayed Keep would be this. Assistant would be thi…
The issue with Google is, that Google doesn’t care about privacy and randomly changes its behavior, like recently closing thousands of accounts for using the live chat in YouTube. This company isn’t trustworthy.
I’d prefer such applications to run offline with automatic instant synchronization, so no company can tell me what to do or not to do.
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#28I can't help thinking that resurrection of Google Reader (and RSS readers in general) and del.icio.us might help.
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#29It's sad that RSS is fading away. It simplified ingestion a lot. At the end of the day it focuses on content and a feed provides a quick overview of all the new content that has been published. I don't really understand why people are not into it anymore. Blogs and news sites don't even need to provide HTML pages loaded with JS and CSS when they provide RSS. Why would I bother loading so much stuff when I can get the data straight away without the bloat
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#30There was recently a post in HN called "There is too much stuff". It revolved around the massive amount of unnecessary physical goods we need to shift through to find what we are looking for. I believe the same thing happens with content. There is way more content out there that I would like to consume than my time allows. Is not rare to make my way through an article or a 1 hour talk and think 'oh well, that was a w…
Off topic, but is Domain Driven Design suddenly coming into vogue? I just heard of it for the first time this week and went into a rabbit hole of research. I see that the books are not new by any means. I've heard and seen it pop up so many times just this week, including from your comment!
It seems to me that a lot of people are mixing DDD and functional programming concepts, since DDD meshes well with the concept of "functional core imperative shell".