Isolated BS: VR breakthroughs, space clouds, and earthworm jerky
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Spaaaaace
Clouds in space…? Microsoft Azure Space and Azure Orbital. Making space cheaper and more accessible with satcomm as a service.
VR
The new Oculus Quest. Past predictions. Pulling the VR market in the direction of affordability? Pandemic winter VR. Hating Facebook while embracing their VR product. Getting better at not getting sick. Experiences of unreality.
Conferencing
Virtual chewing noises. Missing irl conference-going. It’s like a vacation for adult nerds!
Food
Food preservation. Preserved dairy variations by latitude. Jerky! Appreciating controlled rot. Earthworm jerky. Roasted grasshoppers!
About Chapulines: Wikipedia
Zebra vs Horses: Animal Domestication by CGP Grey: YouTube
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AI everything
Creating a thinking, feeling artificial intelligence to do really important things for humanity like… sorting through your e-mail. N-dimensional AI chess. Rapid takeoff scenarios.
Personal Assistants
Natural language processing developments. The rise of proactive digital...
Published 11/10/20
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Published 11/03/20