Google Glass: 2034

Beyond Google Glass by 2034

Summary: What happens if we progress to a culture dominated by augmented reality and lifelogging?

In decades past, they had called it spring. But at 95+ degrees outside of Eva Konsumer's tiny studio apartment in downtown Miami, it sure felt like summer. In fact, Eva could not recall during her 25-year-old life when it wasn't blazing hot in April in Miami

 

 

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Unless there was a compelling reason to do so, these days, it was best to stay indoors where the concrete block construction and the industrial air conditioning systems could regulate temperature to a much more hospitable level. And down in South Florida, with the heavy sun, the UV alone from the hole in the Earth's ozone layer could cook you. Skin cancer city.

Like many of the new, ultra-dense apartment buildings in Miami, Eva's small studio had no windows, but she could see everything going on outside if she wanted,in completely polarized, sun-filtered ultradef crispness.Of course, for a measly $8,000 a month, especially as a grad student studying environmental law at the University of Miami, you couldn't expect an apartment that was right on the beach. But it's not like anyone really cared about having an ocean view anymore because you could have an outside view of anything you wanted.

Hong Kong Harbor or New York City's Times Square at night. Tokyo's Roppongi district. Cairo. The International Moonbase at Tycho. Or the view outside the colony dome at Curiosity Station on Mars.

Like many young residents of Miami, Eva chose to live in a sparsely furnished flat. Its four walls and all of its cabinets were painted absolute "augwhite", with no hangings of any sort to adorn them. Lighting was an array of cool white dimmable OLEDs, integrated into the ceiling and corners.She had her roll out bed/couch, her coffee table, her comfy chairs and stools for the breakfast bar in the kitchenette. And that was more than enough for any single girl going to school. More than enough for anyone, really.

She preferred to do most of her work on the comfy chair, unless it was one of those few times a month she had to drag herself to campus and actually meet her professors and fellow students for planned teaming events.

The University of Miami was a bit traditional when it came to their 80/20 telecommuting rules. Her best friend telepresences from Miami to MIT, and they don't have such policies.

"Playback: September 15, 2022. Logstart."

The large "window" in her apartment that was showing a live 34th-floor view of downtown Miami faded into a video playback of the moment she first started lifelogging. The day she got her augplant.

"Personal lifelog, halt playback."

Facebook, LinkedIn upgrade mobile experiences for developers, end users

Summary: Facebook's Open Graph goes mobile while LinkedIn readies its mobile interface for more digital content.

Mobile is at the forefront of the agenda for Silicon Valley's social networking giants as both Facebook and LinkedIn have rolled out major upgrades this week.

Starting with Facebook, the Menlo Park, Calif.-based company is bringing its Open Graph app and games infrastructure to mobile devices while also introducing version 3.5 of its iOS SDK.

Announced amid the social network's Mobile DevCon in New York City on Thursday, Facebook's director of product management Douglas Purdy explained on the Facebook Developers Blog that these updates further transition Facebook to a mobile-first platform.

Purdy outlined the two major features behind Open Graph for mobile, including the Object API for creating Open Graph objects without requiring a web server to host them along. The mobile version also comes with a native Share Dialog for built-in support of Open Graph sharing actions for sharing content without having to log into Facebook first.

Furthermore, Facebook revealed a few more stats about the state of Open Graph.

As of April 10, 81 percent of the top grossing 100 iOS apps and 70 percent of the top grossing 100 Android apps are integrated with Facebook.Additionally, 82 percent of the top grossing US 100 iOS games apps and 75 percent of the top grossing US 100 Android games apps are integrated with Facebook.

As for LinkedIn, the professional social network has been busy revamping its desktop portal interface and look over the last few months.Tomer Cohen, the product lead for LinkedIn's mobile unit, explained in a blog post on Wednesday that the mobile version has been redesigned from "front to back to create more delightful interactions throughout the app."

We’re surfacing up the most relevant and timely professional insights in your stream so you can quickly discover and engage with all of the great professional conversations taking place across LinkedIn. This means an engaging, vibrant and visual stream with tailored updates, news, original posts from Influencers and much more. Joining the conversation is now even easier with liking and commenting available directly in your stream.

Based on Cohen's comments, the point of the revision is to bring the mobile experience completely in line with the desktop one, enabling the same business connections and potential decisions -- but perhaps more frequently than before.

Some of the new touches are centered around the news streams and navigation pages, which is also likely in preparation for a pending deluge of more content thanks to the recent acquisition of digital news reader Pulse.