{"id":1582,"date":"2009-03-11T16:40:16","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T15:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/180.211.110.195:8082\/biestmilch\/?p=1582"},"modified":"2016-04-30T10:28:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T09:28:00","slug":"do-we-need-more-precise-information-to-buy-our-the-right-toilet-paperinstead-of-following-a-path-of-hyperlinks-meta-information-anywhere-at-any-time-about-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/11\/do-we-need-more-precise-information-to-buy-our-the-right-toilet-paperinstead-of-following-a-path-of-hyperlinks-meta-information-anywhere-at-any-time-about-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Do we need more precise information to buy our (the right?) toilet paper?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Instead of following a path of hyperlinks meta-information is available anywhere at any time about everything!<\/p>\n

Pattie Maes<\/a> from the MIT presents in her talk a device they consider as a kind of Sixth Sense. It\u00a0 is a wearable device<\/a> with a projection screen that paves the way for profound, data-rich interaction with our environment. As she explains to us this device still under construction should help us to make decisions in a world submerging in data, should give us more certainty \u2013 decisiveness is probably the better choice of a word \u2013 in our decision-making processes.
It is by no means a thrilling thing that her group is developping but I am hesitant whether it will have the effect of a relief on us who live in a flood of stimuli every day. Could an apparatus like this potentially accelerate the imminent alienation process with our environment? But please, don’t get me wrong I don’t want to be cynical.<\/p>\n

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Pattie Maes<\/a> was the key architect behind what was once called “collaborative filtering” and has become a key to Web 2.0: the immense engine of recommendations (things like this) fueled by other users. In the 1990s, Maes’ Software Agents program at MIT created Firefly, a technology that let users choose songs they liked, and find similar songs they\u2019d never heard of, by taking cues from others with similar taste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Instead of following a path of hyperlinks meta-information is available anywhere at any time about everything! Pattie Maes from the MIT presents in her talk a device they consider as a kind of Sixth Sense. It\u00a0 is a wearable device with a projection screen that paves the way for profound, data-rich interaction with our environment. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2294],"tags":[574,572,573,63],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1582"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5790,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions\/5790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}