"It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic." W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915 English dramatist & novelist (1874 - 1965)
"Who knows what form the forward momentum of life will take in the time ahead or what use it will make of our anguished searching. The most that any one of us can seem to do is fashion something--an object or ourselves--and drop it into the confusion, make an offering of it, so to speak, to the life force."
Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

Thursday, October 6, 2011

iPhone 4S: Siri

Apple announced the new iPhone 4S with Siri Personal Assistant. I've read many things stating how cool the tech is but also how few people will use it. Many stating they felt wierd talking to their phone. Most agreed it would be helpful in the car while driving but beyond that...

Well, all I can say is:
Remember that scene in Star Trek IV where Scotty is trying to sell the formula for transparent steel? He tries talking to the computer and keeps getting no answer when finally the company owner hands him the keyboard and Scotty says: "A keyboard. How quaint."

Remember that.
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