[IP] more on resend Time to switch off and slow down (fwd)
Begin forwarded message:
From: Frode Hegland <frode@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: July 17, 2005 9:13:14 AM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] Time to switch off and slow down (fwd)
May I humbly suggest that some of this is in part a failure of the
imagination, as is often the case with relatively new media? Why
stick with email programs and utilities which are essentially
unchanged since the 70s?
How about this, email which does not just 'beep' with every message,
so you constantly have to keep checking who is sending you email.
What about a small app which speaks when you get mail, with a real
human voice, stating who the message is from? "You have a message
from a client" or "You have a reply from your assistant" and keeps
quiet with non-useful messages so you will never hear anything like
"You have another chain-message-joke from your brother".
In other words, instead of beeps you have to check, or nothing, why
not get your email to behave (in a small way) like the 'intelligent'
digital assistant we all want?
No, unlike the AI people who say that real intelligent assistants are
right around the corner, we can cheat. Today.
Yes, I have such an application, called LiSA. She also works on
phones BTW and no, I am not trying to sell this to your guys, just
show that other approaches can provide a better information
environment. I am happy to provide free serial numbers to all IP'ers.
And the phone version is not publicly available yet, but happy to
email it to one and all. Anyway, LiSA is available at http://
www.speakingassistant.com
And that was developed by a tiny developer. Imagine what Microsoft,
no wait, Apple could do if they weren't so stuck in the current ways
of doing things? There is so much more we can do.
On 15 Jul 2005, at 18:13, David Farber wrote:
Begin forwarded message:
From: Michael Winser <michaelw@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: July 15, 2005 12:53:01 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] Time to switch off and slow down (fwd)
I'm confused. If IP was broadcast directly to my eyeballs (Fred
Pohl, how right you were) then I can see a problem. If I lived in
Times square and was forced to watch TV on a jumbotron then I can
see a problem.
I don't see a problem.
At a hi-tech conference bristling with bloggers constantly checking
messages on Blackberries, smartphones, laptops and handheld
computers,
it is odd to hear a speaker suggest an e-mail free day.
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