<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 5:59 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
I second that, bigtime. What happened to human-computer ergonomics? It <br>
used to be a field of study.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>It's been subsumed by the User Experience (UX), which encompasses all aspects of the user's interaction with a company and its products and services. UX is considered sexier and more important than the user interface (UI), and UI has suffered as a result. I think that many widely-used user interfaces are horrid, e.g., Hulu Live (streaming TV with "DVR"), Snapchat (photo/video social networking), and FaceBook. Google generally does a pretty good job, though there's room for improvement.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I notice nobody has mentioned Virtual (and Augmented) Reality as a <br>
near-term tech to be anticipated. I'm keenly anticipating that, but <br>
expect it will have to be substantially hacked, or be open-source (thus <br>
easily hackable), to be useable. The commercial versions will be <br>
dreadful, no doubt.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div> Google Translate translating written language in real time in video is already very useful. VR seems to always be 5 years away from awesome.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
After that, I'd hope for life-extension tech, including replacement <br>
bio-synthetic body parts, leading to full cyborgisation.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Additive manufacturing (AKA 3D printing) will be a big part of that.</div><div><br></div><div>-Dave</div></div></div>