Re: <nettime> The Five Minutes App

[Morlock Elloi <morlockelloi@gmail.com>]

As the technology gets more advanced, the dominant class will direct it 
closer and closer to the primary physiological interfaces with no 
possibility of mediation.

It's called virtual reality. Nothing new about it - these are decades 
old and supposed to depict dystopia, but "dys" became "u":

http://www.puremovies.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/a-clockwork-orange-puremovies-620x299.jpg

http://cmulrooney.tripod.com/russelltommy3.jpg




On 8/4/17, 2:07, Magnus Boman wrote:
> Restating what you call obvious in hype terms: on the voice app market,
> Amazon's Alexa is leading the race and this market is estimated to
> <insert silly number here> billions, with Google and Microsoft tailing.
> This is sold as getting rid of the keyboard and mouse, which surely
> never were much good to us for communication human-to-human, but it is
> again the "scarcity" you mention: a phone being used for voice, imagine
> that, with almost all of its capabilities dormant. (This time the phone
> has a hard disk though, so we _will_ be logged.) The Luddite dimension
> is added to by Amazon paying voice app developers in cash. Stealth retro
> tech dev paid by the world's richest man in paper money!

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