"What role does urban planning play in the development of online, multi-user environments and communities?"
These are two transcriptions from some of the powerpoint slides Mr Thad Starner used in his public presentation about wearable computers at MIT Media Lab in 1998.
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| (which using a wearable computer can make redundant)
* CD player, camcorder, pocket calculator, watch, pager, email, cellular phone, answering machine, tape recorder, calculator, pocket language translator, web browser, electronic address book, health monitor, identification, bank card, newspaper, memo pad, dictionary, thesaurus, notebook computer |
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| Human-Computer Symbiosis | ||
| "Man-computer" symbiosis is a subclass of man machine systems. There are many man-machine systems. At present however, there are no man-computer symbioses...The idea is that in not too many years, human brains and computer machines will be coupled together very tightly and that the resulting partership will think as no human brain has ever thought and process data in a way not approached by the information handling machines we know today.
J.C.R. Licklider, 1960 |
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