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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Adrian Tymes<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] future of proletariat, was: RE: future of slavery<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 7:42 AM, spike <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal>Some of you hardware gurus help me out here. Assuming Google glass or<br>equivalent, along with Skype, let us use the example of the motorcycle<br>repair. Is current hardware up to the task of letting me point to things<br>with a cursor on the other person's vision? If I had the other prole<br>looking at her bike so I can see what she is seeing, I want to use my cursor<br>to point at something in her field of view <span style='color:#1F497D'>…</span>.<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>This was, in fact, being demonstrated on a fully automated basis back in<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>1997, with Boeing's Maintenance Aid Computer. <span style='color:#1F497D'>…</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Doh! I can never think of an original idea. Except the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Both the mechanic (me) and the prole (owner of similar bike, elsewhere) get two computers, both with Skype. We call each other. She sets her camera pointed on her bike, which transmits to me and I receive that image on my first computer. I set my second computer’s camera on the screen of my first computer, which transmits back to her, which she receives on her second computer. So now I don’t need a cursor control; I just point to things on my first screen with my finger. So now we don’t need Google glass or any exotic software or anything; both Skype connections are free and I can point to what thing needs to be done next, using only four ordinary computers and two Skype connections.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>If we get tricky, it might be possible for the mechanic to use only one computer and a mirror somehow. I don’t know what happens if you call a computer on Skype with a mirror in front of it. Do you see yourself? And what if two Skype computers call each other with mirrors in front of each? Do they go crazy sending each other images of each other? But I digress.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Is that four-computer two-Skype notion a new idea? If so, I donate it into the public domain and invite any proles present with two computers who want to test the notion, since I have two computers (actually five, but two that can be dedicated to this kind of constructive silliness.) We can do something that doesn’t require a motorcycle too.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>