digital assistant

just what I tried to describe in hidden views, Anssi Vanjoki is mentioning in his technological testament when now quiting from Nokia.

http://www.city.fi/artikkeli/Vanjoen+teknotestamentti/3668/
(in Finnish sorry)

specifically the point number six: our digital twins or assistants take care and automate dull errands like paying bills or route planning.

also interestingly at the same it was announced that RIM acquired the Swedish TAT with lots of interesting ideas about user interfaces, also augmented reality stuff.

Disappearing technology

a quick note while passing by.

Mark Weiser:

"The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it. "

http://nano.xerox.com/hypertext/weiser/SciAmDraft3.html

Like transistor radios, how they were called way back in the 1950's. Later just radios. And nowadays those radios are merged to mobile phones and other apparatus. Making them invisible, immaterial memory of something that used to be concrete to us. Like leverage, downshifting, bottleneck, ...

One could argue that the more profound the technology is, the harder it is to distinguish from the realm of every day life.