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<p>The actual gestural referent of my tangent made more explicit:</p>
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<p><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://venturebeat.com/2022/07/10/a-new-milestone-in-augmented-reality-functional-contact-lenses/"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://venturebeat.com/2022/07/10/a-new-milestone-in-augmented-reality-functional-contact-lenses/</a><br>
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<p><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/history-of-augmented-reality"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://spectrum.ieee.org/history-of-augmented-reality</a><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/14/22 7:31 PM, Steve Smith wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:1f0998b6-5061-ade6-3e9b-d73eb8b9da06@swcp.com">
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On 7/14/22 6:53 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">Why would I need 5G cell service? I never
download anything that takes more than a few seconds.
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you don't...
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I mostly don't need (or have available) over 3G, but it is good my
phone is 4G capable because when I travel to places with good 4G I
often don't have WiFi access so I set it up as a hot-spot which
sometimes includes streaming HD+ (sometimes 2x stereo for Oculus)
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When I lived on 110bps (acoustically coupled) dialup I wondered at
how I would ever (legitimately) use more than 1200bps (sneering at
the folks jonesing for 56kbps)
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IMO, as with disease vs epidemiology, an important point of higher
capacity networks is that the constrained resources (wires,
fibres, right-of-ways, towers, aether, etc) are used more
efficiently (by orders of magnitude) with each Generation.. This
helps (firstly) the service provider/industry but (lastly) also
the customers. Just think how much twisted pair copper would be
required to support all the 300bps modems it would take to provide
even a fraction of the bandwidth we use casually every second of
every day.
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I'm not a fan of "progress-for-progress-sake" but it does seem
inevitable within it's own internal logic. This references a
thread Glen just weighed in on which fascinates me, but I'm too
busy rebuilding a new (to me) 2012 Macbook pro to backfill for the
2010 that finally got too flaky to repair (at my level of
understanding)...
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True to form, I will probably leapfrog to AR contacts or direct
cortex-link in a year (or decade) and eventually wonder how I ever
bothered with "screens" and "keyboards" and "pointing devices"...
or else the noosphere/biosphere will collapse under the weight of
our runaway progress-for-the-sake-of-progress.
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- (g)Rumble
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