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The paper computer
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#92I've read the other article about the 3d scanning Cat. Kind of get the feeling this guy has lived a privledge life and gets things done by other people doing it for him before he even asks. How many times does he have to mention he has is phone loaded up with social media apps and allows notifications? It must be really hard for him to turn these off considering his constant assault of convinces and people wanting to do things for him.
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#93I remember reading about an answer machine that would kind of 'lay' a small ball every time a message was left.
You'll be able to tell if you had a message by visually scanning for one or more ball.
To listen to a message, you'd take a ball and place it at a certain position to execute playback.
I found the coming together of physical and digital in this way, incredibly alluring; and still do today.
The article's focus reminded me of similar outcomes.
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#94Paper Computing (great name!) is something I've been thinking about a lot to help my kids benefit from tech without exposing them to the brain melting addiction of screens. I sacrificed a few crazy nights of sleep to try to build a Paper Computer Agent prototype for a recent Gemini hackathon (only to disappointingly have submission issues right before the actual deadline) which my kids loved and keep asking me to set…
Thanks for all the kind words. I would love to work on this more but the hackathon sprint was really all I had time for (note the newborn in the video...) without more backing / support. I was really bummed that the hackathon rejected the submission, because it provided some Google support if you win.
If anyone knows of a way to develop this... the code is on Github, and I have a roadmap in mind, but as we all know there's a huge gap between hacky prototype and "works smoothly for other users".
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#95from a ux perspective, all of this is quite exciting and is made possible with our growing capabilities with computer vision and language understanding.
however, it is quite interesting, the way these things are named and branded. calling it "computerless" or "screenless" is quite funny semantically. of course we need computing (often through the cloud even) to get it to run. and the word "screen" was originally meant to describe a surface to be projected on, which a lot of these solutions do!!
i'd wager that along the same lines, pretty much any smart voice assistant in your room could fit into this bucket, albeit with different capability set.
this is still at a stage where it seems like a lot of work to make it do what we take for granted on a daily basis. very far from reality for those who wanted to get rid of screens altogether. for that, the focus should more be on what one does on a screen than the hardware itself.
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#96I remember reading about an answer machine that would kind of 'lay' a small ball every time a message was left. You'll be able to tell if you had a message by visually scanning for one or more ball. To listen to a message, you'd take a ball and place it at a certain position to execute playback. I found the coming together of physical and digital in this way, incredibly alluring; and still do today. The article's foc…
And here it is: https://ccdc11.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/durrell-bishops-marb...
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#97Receive email, render page with the email and a reply section and a unique ID, print it out physically Human picks up all the sheets out of the printer, writes out replies with pen Human puts the stack of answered email sheets in a multi-page scanner Scanner physically scans them, agent transcribes them and matches them back to the incoming emails via the unique ID on each sheet, sends replies You could adjust this f…
On one of my first qualified jobs, my manager (a lovely older lady) did exactly this. All incoming emails were printed and put into a binder. Then she would go home, write an answer with a pen on the back side of every single one, and on the next day write a new email to the recipient. 10-15 % of all emails she sent this way would bounce because she had written the address incorrectly. When I showed her the reply but…
Eudora! My mom used Eudora when I was a kid