Quack System Upgrades

geoffkait, yup, Something IS ruining the sound in the room....

...and I'd go absolutely giddy if it was shown to be Us. *LOL*

"System would sound great if it weren't for you.  Please exit the room."

I could see a 'puter piping up with that little request in the not too distant future, what with active eq sensing programs already showing up in some devices.  Since there's already sensors for games 'n stuff that 'watch' one's moves during play, I can see where that could be tied into a system that could sense where your are in the space and adjust eq and spatial response to follow you around.  The buggers are starting to listen to us now already; what's next?  Or, perhaps the better query, what are you afraid of? ;)

"Hey, Cortana.  I feel like a bite.." *Argh!* "NO,NO, Nooo..."

Snake oiled BSOD....you, blue, and quite dead.  "Well, he asked for it."

Funny post, Jerry. What is "BSOD"?

Best,
Dave

Dave, "BSOD" applies to Windows-based computers, and stands for "Blue Screen of Death."  The blue screen + text that on many versions of Windows may appear when Windows itself has crashed, and the computer has to be rebooted. 

Best regards,
-- Al
 

asvjerry
geoffkait, yup, Something IS ruining the sound in the room....

...and I’d go absolutely giddy if it was shown to be Us. *LOL*

"System would sound great if it weren’t for you. Please exit the room."

The only product I sell that is NOT an audio product is the Mind Lamp from Psyleron, a multicolor lamp that changes color randomly according to a pseudorandom state generator in the base of the lamp. The state is generated by quantum fluctuations in the house current. The Mind Lamp was developed by a group from Princeton University’s engineering anomaly research group (PEAR). The Mind Lamp has a palette of 8 colors to chose from.

When the Mind Lamp is in an empty room the colors are displayed in a purely random sequence. What is interesting - and the reason I bring this up - is when someone is IN THE ROOM with the Mind Lamp the color selection can be influenced by the person or persons in the room. For example, if the person is intentionally thinking of the color RED, RED will be displayed by the lamp with a slightly greater probability than the random 1/8. In some cases a person can make the Mind Lamp change to the color of his choice immediately. Also of interest, when two Mind Lamps are placed in an empty room their color selection is not random, but each lamp is apparently influenced by the output of the other lamp. Dueling Mind Lamps?

*LOL* Geoff, that's just the sort of thing that makes me vacillate between amazement and mild paranoia.  Things like that have an amazing tendency to just improve on us.  There's research going on towards in 'mind control' of digital devices that potentially could 'read your thoughts'; I suppose one has to 'think out loud' at this time to 'get it's attention' and trigger the desired response.  The obvious use would be for the handicapped... those who can't otherwise use hands, limbs, or any typical means to use a device, move about, or communicate...
Stephen Hawking comes to mind....one of the greatest thinkers of our era is able to share his thoughts and knowledge even now.  If he was able to have further improvements on his devices, if that tech was more common to a broader user base, it borders on magic and myth...

"The lame walk, the halt speak, the blind see..."  Truly practical magic. *S*  It's wondrous to live in the era when that begins to become real...

...and then there's the YT vid of 2 iPhones held next to each other, listening to Siri talk to 'herself'.  The conversation isn't terribly brilliant, but it's funny if only on the conceptual level. ;)

...and I think back to a Blue Man concert back in Houston some 12 years ago.  The 'opening act' was 2 LED 'reader boards', one each stage left and right.  They began with a simple 'conversation', one responding to the other.

It grew more involved....one became petulant, the other rather paranoid and argumentative.  Obviously contrived and scripted, but it amused the audience and started levels of support and disdain, depending on where it went.  A good distraction while the roadies 'tidied up'...

What would occur if there was some current AI's chatting it up?  Would we still be amused?  What if 'they' could respond to the audience, 'sense' their level of involvement?  Where would it go....?

The Future.  Live it, or live with it.  Happens all the time...*G*  Can't be stopped, not even paused...

What if our systems knew what you needed to hear?  The TV lights up to what you read earlier, or merely heard about?  The restaurant has your parties' meals waiting for you, just what y'all had in mind, Waiting for y'all to take your seats, the libation shaken, not stirred....;)

We may all be Borg eventually, but not in the STNG feared fashion....what if you could read your partners' mind?  Your neighbors?

Would it be the 4 things I kid people about now, reading minds and why I gave it up?

"It's always basically the same 4 things....Money, Food, Sex, and Sleep.  Not in any particular order..."

...but I'm just 'like that'... ;)  Just random walking while awake, doing something else....*G*