Comments for entry "Dilbert Pocket" at Dilbert.com Blog

Comment from JamesEverhart

SatAMCDTE_Rthth

I am thoroughly confident all of this will come to pass, too

Comment from padreman

TueAMCSTE_Rthth

Since web log became "blog," Dilbert Pocket should follow as "tpocket" which is pronounced similar to pwnd.

Comment from Blumbert

MonPMCSTE_Rthth

So, this was at the TED conference? Isn't Ted the name Scott gives to characters that are about to be fired/demoted/outsourced? Hmmmm....

Comment from JasperKlewer

MonAMCSTE_Rthth

The original talk on MIT's Sixth Sense was given by Pattie Maes, head of the MIT Media Lab and the boss of Pranav Mistry: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html

Comment from Darren

MonAMCSTE_Rthth

So when secretaries used to store contact info on a rolodex, that was an exobrain? They were outsourcing their memory, after all. I guess the hieroglyphs in the Valley of the Kings are one big Egyptian Terminator factory.

Comment from Darren

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Comment from Leora

SunAMCSTE_Rthth

Of course it will also 'watch' the road for you while driving, guiding you to your destination while warning you of cross traffic, speed zones, erratic pedestrians, safe following distance, !$%*!$%*! for weather conditions, and all that fun stuff that we have all seemingly forgotten. And we can only hope that it will have spell-check, so you don't post things like 'lense' without it correcting you to 'lens'. I've already given up trying to explain the difference between 'discreet' and 'discrete', but your device would simply whisper as someone typed...'Excuse me, but I believe that should be spelled as two words, like this: a-l-l r-i-g-h-t.' Ah, brave new world!

Comment from scruffdog87

SatAMCSTE_Rthth

Don't forget brain waves as an eventual control mechanism! More discrete and socially acceptable than even quiet clicking...as long as no one hacks it.

Comment from wishnevsky

SatAMCSTE_Rthth

This bus, cyborgs. All cyborgs on this bus...Scott is right. This is like the Global Brain discussion. When will there be a Global Brain that ties all people together? Threat or menace? There has been a global brain since the Spanish Empire. There have been cyborgs since the telegraph, eyeglasses, false teeth. Wooden legs even. It just takes literary types a while to see the obvious.

Comment from BTTFVGO

SatAMCSTE_Rthth

:But I think you will see some version of the African Clicking language employed..." lol... I just started rereading "When Body Language Goes Bad" this morning and the introduction mentions your knees doing the African Clicking language. What a crossover! And, with all the technological advancements we might as well say we are part cyborg, although I will never get a chip inside of me.

Comment from magic_matt

FriPMCSTE_Rthth

I wear reading glasses and dentures. Do these enhancements make me a cyborg or just old? On the spot facial recognition would be a social plus, I think. Then I would know those people's names who I do not care about and that I do not bother to remember now.

Comment from golffan856

FriPMCSTE_Rthth

Scott, You always refer to your readers as "intelligent". But a large number of posters always come back with "it won't work". Clearly this is a close-minded attitude. Isn't close-mindedness a trait of the subhumans? Or maybe only your dumb readers post - yours truly excluded? Or are you just being generous in your assessment of your readers.

Comment from golffan856

FriAMCSTE_Rthth

I want one. I've been thinking about the internet and the likelihood of it becoming the joining point of the the collective. Pre-Search Engine, where did you learn anything? From your mom or dad or teacher or friend/co-worker or that pimpily face punk by the swings. Nowadays, I want to know what something is or how to make a pot roast, google it. It's such a powerful tool. I can totally see one day where we have a built in chip that allows us to upload and download information to our brains (or at least a tiny screen embedded in my eye - or glasses). Whatever, I'm not an engineer. But I can totally see it. Awesome blog.

Comment from gnick

FriAMCSTE_Rthth

There are a few comments here describing facial recognition as an unachieved fantasy (and one pointing out that Google has it but hasn't unleashed it). To you, I recommend downloading Picasa (Google's image organizing/sorting/editing/ordering software). The facial recognition built in to their v3.5 release isn't perfect, but it's scary good and a lot of fun. Not to mention that it's easily fast enough to be incorporated into those new-fangled camera phones.

Comment from Drowlord

FriAMCSTE_Rthth

While most of the technology -- processors, memory, wireless, cameras, bluetooth, cellphone, etc -- already exist, we're notoriously bad about combining those things into anything vaguely smart. I like my iPhone, and I think it does a better job at integrating things than most, but it's still so far away from any meaningful decision making and context as to be irrelevent. Your exobrain reminds me of a quote made by an artificial intelligence in The Matrix. "This was the height of your civilization. I say that it was the height of YOUR civilization, because once we started thinking for you, it really became OUR civilization." (I'm sure that's not perfectly accurate).

Comment from rizwaniqbal

ThuPMCSTE_Rthth

I believe Scott is talking about the Pranav Mistry sixth sense presentation at TED - http://www.ted.com/talks/pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potential_of_sixthsense_technology.html

Comment from hbmindia

ThuPMCSTE_Rthth

Nice post Scott, but by your definition man became a cyborg the day he made a stone axe.

Comment from kentmcmanigal

ThuPMCSTE_Rthth

I live a couple hundred feet from a time zone boundary, and in a rather rural area. It randomly switches towers back and forth between states/time zones. So my cellphone can't figure out what time it "really" is. Using a cell phone as an alarm clock here doesn't work too well. You might get awakened an hour early, an hour late, or (when the phone thinks it is an hour earlier than it is, and then switches back to the correct time right after your wake-up time) not at all.

Comment from MikeStansky

ThuPMCSTE_Rthth

This post is spot on with the daily dilbert calender. Dogbert is explaining to a new guy that "machines have taken over and your job is to provide them with electricity...and do you think those electron voting machines care about your opinion"

Comment from DMH

ThuAMCSTE_Rthth

Exobrain: "That's Jane. She's your wife. Judging by her rising blood pressure you have done something wrong. After analyzing your activities over the past week and noting the size of the bulge in the vein near her left temple, I believe it was not telling her that your mother was coming to town this weekend."