The impending Age Of Abundance was prophecied in the scriptures thousands of years ago.
Monday, March 03, 2014
The Natural User Interface And The Differently Abled
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| English: NASA StarChild image of Stephen Hawking. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
The keyboard, if you think about it, does feel unnatural.
The ultimate is being able to command your computing environment with your eye movements, Stephen Hawking style.
At some level we are all differently. A lot of start wearing glasses early on. As soon as you put one on, you have gently stepped into the differently abled zone. Smart, robotic limbs are not a challenge anymore. They are not innovation challenges, they are simply now scaling challenges.
Your brain is one of the last parts of your body to give up on you. Which means the NUI taken to its logical conclusion will allow us to raise the retirement age. And since retirement is voluntary anyways, a lot of us could hope to live long productive lives through NUI.
Education remains the great unsolved mystery of our knowledge age, ironically. The industrial era education engines/structures don't recognize concepts like people learn at their own paces with their own styles. That individualization is now possible. But there are old institutional structures that get in the way.
There are enormous implications on education and health because a knowledge economy puts a major, unprecedented emphasis on human capital. Human capital is a concept much bigger than human rights because it takes human rights for granted.
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