From: rick_s on
On 6/28/2010 0:05, rick_s wrote:
> Alwaaaaays be closing. lol
>
> Seeing that display and imagining a life-like Zul AI assistant that we
> all will be teaching new things to made ask for the first time, is this
> really a good idea?
>
> Well we can always count on the pentagon.
>
> Are we collectively more intelligent that any of us individually?
>
> Can you say that in Einstein's day he was the smartest and if so, could
> he beat Zul up if he had to?
>
> Cause we can have an Einstein too then.
>
> Holowars. We would all be watching them.
>
> I think the small screen beside the typical 2D or 3D monitor is a good
> sensible way to start. Based on the AI Librarian concept.
>
> That's useful, and manageable for normal people and shouldn't be 45,000
> dollars like the one in the last post. Mind you that page is from 2005.
>
> Integration with your pc, the TV, the cell phone, the various
> multi-media players you have already. They all serve a useful purpose.
>
> I have known people with a TV that could answer the phone with the
> remote. Why on earth anyone wanted that I have no idea.
>
> Less is not more. If you only have one screen, will you only have one
> company?
>
> Maybe 320x320x320 is not really the size we need since it is tempting to
> go with a door shaped screen.
> But then an animated scene with background that you might use or not,
> makes it even better I think.
> It depends on how much room you have I suppose.
>
> Typically the screens are not cubic they are widescreen.
>
> The screen size could be any size but the image might be square or
> cropped or stretched but stretched it would look stupid.
>
> The computer manages resolution and it will then as well I suspect.
>
> So you should be able to have any shape you want at some point.
>
> Maybe a round screen. Somehow I think the door shape seems more
> ergonomic today. It fits in with the AI concept. Otherwise you might as
> well just replace your screen.
>

Well to each their own but if we go with the clear panel concept and
then like in Paycheck, at some point a few weeks laterm, remove the
panel, so that you have a small scene free standing hologram style as if
it was an animated Zuul collector scene right there from a comic shop...

I guess it is actually Gozer the Gozerian and not Zuul. Somehow Zuul
seems a better fit for her name.

http://i.imagehost.org/0974/GozerStanding.jpg

A little soft lighting, a throne to sit on, and you could zone out just
watching the bats fly around her head in your room late at night.

No screen, just little people. (or creatures) I guess we shouldn't worry
about the screen. A cube is a cube is a cube.