Looking beyond vacuum cleaners, this points to a time - very soon, apparently - when devices begin to integrate their functions to reduce the amount of administrative overhead required of the humans who use them.
For example, a printer might pre-order a new toner cartridge when its current one begins to run low. Either way, the utopian ideal is that technology will reduce the amount of intervention required of us.
That's the ideal. I suspect the reality will fall somewhat short of that. But we can still look forward and hope.
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Carmi @ Dec 19th 2005 12:10AM
Looking beyond vacuum cleaners, this points to a time - very soon, apparently - when devices begin to integrate their functions to reduce the amount of administrative overhead required of the humans who use them.
For example, a printer might pre-order a new toner cartridge when its current one begins to run low. Either way, the utopian ideal is that technology will reduce the amount of intervention required of us.
That's the ideal. I suspect the reality will fall somewhat short of that. But we can still look forward and hope.
Carmi
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