You'd have to wear some always-on video recording device, and the AI would be listening to everything, watching everything, and understanding everything happening to you (in the cloud no doubt), and then remembering it, and then prompting you with memories when it feels they're appropriate to your current situation? Sounds like a bit of a stretch, technology-wise, and privacy-wise. One for the cyborgs, maybe.
for a while now. Apparently it's been in production for around four or five years.
Nothing could ever persuade me to 1) plug an ethernet cable into a washing machine or 2) give the washing machine my wifi password.
A "smart" washing machine is a classic example of a solution in search of a problem (unless you just can't use a normal one for whatever reason).
The article was posted on the Guardian website on the morning of 30th March, so I don't think it's an April fool's joke.
You can use it without a keyboard--if you tab into an input box which is off the bottom of the screen, the screen will scroll up. Then when you reach the end press tab until the "Done" button is highlighted and press space to activate it and load the next page. I did several pages without touching the mouse.
As for using the tab to move between input boxes, that is pretty standard in a web form. If you've got two hands it's trivial, just use your left hand to press tab. If you're one-handed then yes, it's a bad interface.
If you're smart enough to know a word like paean, surely you're smart enough to spell it correctly. It only takes a moments to check the spelling of a difficult word. You don't want to look silly do you?
The government doesn't need a "natural" right, it just needs a legal right. There's no such thing as a "natural" right - who would endow it? Go and live in the jungle and you'll see what your "natural" rights are.
Seen on a button at an SF Convention: Veteran of the Bermuda Triangle Expeditionary Force. 1990-1951.
