Wearables (was: Nanotech & how to prepare for the future)

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Dec 21 2000 - 14:00:37 MST


Adrian Tymes wrote:
>
> Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de wrote:
> >
> > If you're talking wearable hardware, I'll be very happy with a fannypack
> > and a decent headset/headup. Sewing stuff into cloth is silly.
>
> You would, but I'm not aiming for early adoptors. I'm aiming for the
> mass market, which means aesthetics become part of the functionality:
> they look wierd or are at all uncomfortable, and they're as good as
> busted right off the manufacturing line. You can hide a lot in a vest,
> and make it look slick in many social environments.

Interesting. So, we could see a situation where the programmers start
buying business suits again, because the suits are the only wearable items
expensive enough - and voluminous enough - to contain decent-sized
computers. Male geeks wearing suits, female geeks wearing three layers of
gowns... computer modeling of what people look like under their clothes...
900Mhz encrypted flirting... wearable computing could have an interesting
effect on sexual morality.

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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence



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