Word: smart
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Jovon, though smart, clever and exceedingly charming when explaining how he was framed for the wet-toilet-paper fight in the bathroom, didn't seem so psyched on Stanford despite our admittedly exaggerated description of seminars on video games. And the instrument thing, partly owing to some oboe trash talking on my part, wasn't going anywhere. There were nights when I dreamed of switching him with Elian, but that may have been more about my freakish need for media attention...
Things get really interesting when fast connections and smart set-top devices mate, turning your TV into what is essentially a cheap computer (or your computer into a pricey TV). In the past, broadcasting always involved watching what the networks offered when they offered it. In the future, you'll tell your TV to capture your favorites--49ers games, Happy Days reruns--whenever and wherever they're on, to watch on your own schedule. Or maybe your TV will tell you what to watch. Using the same sort of software Amazon uses to custom-recommend books, your TV will...
...outcome of genuinely ubiquitous computing, of the fully wired world. The wired world will consist, in effect, of a single unbroken interface. The idea of a device that "only" computes will perhaps be the ultimate archaism in a world in which the fridge or the toothbrush is potentially as smart as any other object, including you, a world in which intelligent objects communicate, routinely and constantly, with one another and with...
...this world, there may be no need for the physical augmentation of the human brain, as the most significant, and quite unthinkably powerful, augmentation will have taken place beyond geographic boundaries, via distributed processing. You won't need smart goo in your brain, because your fridge and your toothbrush will be very smart indeed, enormously smart, and they will be there for you, constantly and always...
...many appliances, vehicles and buildings will be online by 2020 that it seems likely there will be more things on the Internet than people. Internet-enabled cars and airplanes are coming online, and smart houses are being built every day. Eventually, programmable devices will become so cheap that we will embed them in the cardboard boxes into which we put other things for storage or shipping. These passive "computers" will be activated as they pass sensors and will be able to both emit and absorb information. Such innovations will facilitate increasingly automatic manufacturing, inventory control, shipping and distribution. Checkout...