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Tim Cook: Not Too Long From Now, You'll Wonder How You Led Your Life Without AR
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Some things like Steam require a mobile authenticator app. A lot of other sites and apps are requiring the Google Authenticator app
Yes, I absolutely agree. At most, technology facilitates lazy parenting and other negative behaviors. At the same time, it provides lots of opportunities, for example my Apple Watch has been pivotal for my health.
Reading the comments I realize that there are many steve ballmer.
++ I enjoy my Apple Watch quite a bit, particularly the fitness tracking. But, I was already fit when I bought one. Many years ago, post-college, I gained a ton of weight. And then I focused and lost it all, and kept it off. And somehow accomplished this in the era before the Apple Watch, or even smartphones.
People don't even know what they can accomplish anymore minus their technology crutches.
And?
Computers are already taking too much time of our life, we don't need more lifetime wasting products.
Cringe to see a group of young people in a restaurant, and all of them quiet, holding their mobiles and permanently looking on it. When they talk to each other, it's just to show some crap on a social platform and have a quick fake laugh.
That's so sad!
Thank god I'm married and not single anymore.
It would be so hard to meet new people the old fashioned way, e.g. in a train, talk to them, have eye contact with a nice looking girl and become red headed, etc.
Social platforms are asocial, so is AR/VR!
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Bingo.
This guy is just a brainwashed corporate figurehead. It's like he's forgotten that there's a life beyond a glorified electronic company and being glued to a device nonstop. Get out, live your life, go explore the world, make connections with people in the real world, TALK to someone face to face...
Jesus christ, it's no wonder millennials and gen z have poor social skills.
Well, even back in the day before what some younger people consider modern technology, we had tube televisions that parents sat their kids in front of as an electronic babysitter. Now people hand their kids a tablet. Newer technology, but the same thing. It’s not so much the tech, but how we use it. Think about the potential negatives of biometrics versus potential good uses. I agree it’s easy to fall into the trap of doing bad with it though.
With rampant gamication and the way education is heading those three will all be under one category
What you describe does sound compelling, but I would personally find this less convenient than simply sitting down in front of a monitor.
Differences: I grew up with only a single TV in the living room. And channels that actually ended their programming at about 11pm - and were not interactive. Once the programs were over - that was it - not infinite more stuff to sit through.
Yeah, I guess we’ll all be wearing goofy glasses/goggles that do what phones already do. I'm not saying that if I tried this, I wouldn't think it was cool/impressive. I'm sure I would. I don't think it would be life-changing. But I guess I'm always prepared to eat my words 🤷♂️
Maybe in a few years we'll all laugh at the idea we ever once had phones in our pockets when we have glasses instead. Or maybe it will be an implant, like in Futurama.
Maybe in a few years we'll all laugh at the idea we ever once had phones in our pockets when we have glasses instead. Or maybe it will be an implant, like in Futurama.
As you reply with your electronic devices on a forum about electronic devices. Isn’t that what’s called irony. I agree with the concept that you can’t live inside a tech bubble but if used properly tech is very helpful
AR will act basically display HUD for real life.
We are now living in hardcore mode without HUD.
We are now living in hardcore mode without HUD.
Not to mention seeing kids turn into rabid monsters if you try and take their iPad away.
I think Steve Jobs saying his kids weren't allowed to use them is one of the most revealing tech insights of recent history. If I ever have kids, I don't want them using these things. Especially after seeing the kind of deliberately-addictive content kids look at on YouTube. Never-ending streams of videos of people opening up brightly colored toys, mindless stuff created with an algorithm to be maximally addicting for people of a certain gage.
Tim Cook needs to look at the industry surrounding AR/VR and ask himself why has no one put any serious effort into advancing the technology. Whilst expensive, the development kits for Google glasses are still out there in the wild which I am sure could be adapted to AR but no one has done so. There are already well establish VR headset makers and even they have not pushed hard into VR. The technology for AR/VR already exists and has done so for many years but those who already own the technology have not done much with it. I am therefore curious to see what Tim Cook and Apple is going to do with AR/VR where others have not.
"Because I think that we've had a great conversation here today, but if we could augment that with something from the virtual world, it would have arguably been even better."
Like what and in what way(s)? And do not give me that BS "we cannot even imagine yet" line.
It has been shown time and time again that offloading basic functions to electronic devices has a deleterious effect on the brain.
Like what and in what way(s)? And do not give me that BS "we cannot even imagine yet" line.
It has been shown time and time again that offloading basic functions to electronic devices has a deleterious effect on the brain.
I LOVE tech but this is exactly how I feel. Too many notifications I need to take action on for work and personal. It’s just too much and I’m finding myself being drawn to nature more and more to relax.