AI and the future of computing, are we all cyborgs now?
summary
Argues that the “50 billion devices” vision is hype and pushes calm technology instead: devices should require only peripheral attention, offer offline fallback, and compress signals into simple senses. Gives hard examples: smart fridges and a Petnet cloud failure that left pets starving, an insulin pump with noncustomizable beeps that risks lives, a $250k tissue‑scanner robot that speeds pathology 15x by pairing human feedback with automation, Hue weather lamp and server‑status LEDs that prove the approach works. Urges on‑device processing, distributed storage (IPFS) and design for least cognitive overhead.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:30Cyborg Anthropology
- 1:45Internet of Things
- 5:00Petnet
- 7:00What is computing
- 9:00Design principles
- 11:00Smart posture sensor
- 14:00Ambient light
- 16:00Servers
- 17:30User Expectations
- 20:00Googles switchboard
- 22:05Xerox PARC
- 24:15Roomba
- 25:50Google Glass
- 28:10Restorative Technology
- 30:45How to work with less
- 34:55Attention not technology
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