Forrester Research this week predicted an impending boom in the field of "augmented reality." Soon, we won't even need to put that term in quotation marks. It will be an everyday expression. Augmented reality is mostly commonly used to mean the overlaying of digital images onto a real scene. So you'll point your smart phone's camera at your car and you'll see repair manuals, operator instructions, auto part stores that can help. It's reality but with more to it. Reality plus.
via marketplace.publicradio.org
There is a market and entertainment induced transformation of what it means to be a human being taking place daily in the 21st century. Its appearance is banal. GPS: "In 200 yards, Turn right." Google map on your iPhone. Even the ability to pause live television, and soon, the ability to edit live images. It is Reality plus --the step in the Human plus evolution.
I for one will make step to resist at every turn. You may call me a Luddite, but you're wrong. I'm just a human being who would prefer to mediate reality with my corporeal imagination rather than have it mediated for me.
I enjoyed our discussion about car GPS systems and how it's apparently cool to have them stuck to the windshield... everyday, directing people to work....The same place they go, everyday. ha
Posted by: Tony | December 22, 2010 at 08:04 AM