Monday, April 21st, 2003
I found the “slow glass” story (”Light of Other Days”). It’s funny how some stories stick with you. I have no recollection of where or when I first read this. It’s a wonderful idea, though.
Archive for April 21st, 2003
Monday, April 21st, 2003
This thread/article on “Rabid TiVo Fanaticism” (slashdot) may explain why my friend Steve (blog) is so slap-happy about his own growing collection of these appliances.
I like the idea of TiVo, but I want something more. Why not design some sort of real-time TiVo-like personal interface (LiVo?), with goggles and audio and all? That way, you could simply fast forward through conversations and encounters that are unenjoyable, boring, or repulsive. Isn’t life too short to have to confront the mundane all of the time? Live personal LiVo secretaries could sift through the data and only bring us up to real-time when something/someone important happens. The rest of the time, we would be watching TeeVee, of course. With TiVo. Eat your heart out, iLife!
(This reminds me of a SF short story from a while back that was about “slow glass,” which visually recorded everything that happened in front of it until it was switched off, at which point it played it all back in real time. People used them as art, and paid premiums for older glass with a longer “playback.”)