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Re: Augmented Reality (Was RE: Do people want a hard copy of the owners' manual for their car?)
Subject:Re: Augmented Reality (Was RE: Do people want a hard copy of the owners' manual for their car?) From:Keith Hood <klhra -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:KevinMcLauchlan <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>, Bill Swallow <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com> Date:Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:39:23 -0700 (PDT)
Oh, please. Hardwired implants that require intrusive surgery to install are so great-grandiose. The in crowd will communicate silently with the fly-sized terrabyte hoverbot that will follow them everywhere, transceiving via the neural augmentations built into the audio and optic processing lobes of their brains by nanomachines that are ingested along with their morning kashi-apple-cow/bee-hybrid-lactohoney bars.
BIG jump on Friday - was that ridiculous enough? :-)
> > Boudreaux, Madelyn just had to come out with:
>
> >> Nonsense. Next generation PEOPLE will install the
> manual on their
> >> wetware chip, accessible at the mere thought,
> "Open car manual," with
> >> augmented reality (henceforth referred to as AR):
> >
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