Maybe my milk will tell [the fridge] jokes
June 15, 2004 - 11:34pm — bmann
Screw the disintermediation of traditional advertising, the introduction of disruptive technologies to electronics consumers, and the enabling of networked hardware for ubiquitous seamless e-commerce.
No, I'll be satisfied with nothing less than the disintermediation of design itself, and the empowerment of stuff.
Notional Slurry: Your fridge will still be stupid and cold, but maybe my milk will tell it jokes
Another great quote was "If you can’t buy a modem equipped or Bluetooth milk-aware fridge from Hammacher-Schlemmer in the next couple of years, I’ll make you eat your hat.".
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gimme a ^ ....
"...No, I’ll be satisfied with nothing less than the disintermediation of design itself, and the empowerment of stuff.
somebody tell me what that says, better yet - what that whole page says. don't think that D word means what he thinks it means. Further, the agentification of everything is happening whether he realizes it or not.
The agentification of everything
[Ain't Google wonderful?]
GSoo wrote: Further, the agentification of everything is happening whether he realizes it or not.
GSoo didn't read the essay, or get the point I was trying to make: Those of us (yes, us) involved in "agentification" who think agentified refrigerators are the be-all end-all of the New Sexy Future have just not thought hard enough.
It's not called "Notional Slu
It's not called "Notional Slurry" for nothing. I thought it was funny, because I've heard the exact same things many times over.