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Software’s Success Depends on Attending to Fundamental Human Activities

Posted on May 4, 2010 by

Almost all humans do all the following daily: Eat Drink Water Sleep Breath Think about Sex/Get Sexually Excited Communicate with Close Friends and Family Go to the bathroom People Watch Groom Almost all humans do the following very regularly: Work … Continue reading →

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Making Associations Based on What Is Familiar

Posted on June 4, 2009 by

Whether it’s “valid” or not humans (and probably most animals) make associations of new, unknown things with similar-seeming known things.  In fact, this is the basis of communication. In the case of discussing new websites/services/devices like Wolfram|Alpha, Bing, Kindle, iPhone, … Continue reading →

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What’s the Point?

Posted on July 23, 2008 by

There are many writings in science, law and politics these days that amount to a plea to use the laws that exist in the natural environment to better accomplish common objectives. The argument goes that in order to extend our … Continue reading →

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Walking Talking Technology

Posted on June 19, 2008 by

The ritual: Using speech-to-text software trained to my voice, I get to process the world’s media (including environmental sounds) in a way that usurps the originator’s intent and content. The software is as imperfect as my notes are and misrepresents … Continue reading →

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2007 Silent Shifts – The Things We Don’t Talk About That Will Matter

Posted on December 20, 2007 by

HIV drug… down to one pill.  quietly on the market…  this will change lives .net 3.5 release… finally a really robust .NET release Moonlight/Silverlight – microsoft’s relatively quiet push into multiplatform iphone’s pressure on other handsets… the phones that came … Continue reading →

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