Gregory's Server"Stay with me here, so a computer with camera that records your every mov-" NOPE
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@akkartik "Physical sensors are the future" is not the take I thought I'd see on there. But, it's fine, computing trends is kind of a circle. Someone in 100 years is just bound to re-invent something with loads of physical buttons and call it a "key board".  @neauoire to each their own, but I’d recommend really sitting with the computing concepts behind realtalk before throwing it out just bc of the projector/camera thing dynamicland depends on. There’s a lot to learn there for everyone @clarity yeah, it's really not for me. Computers but everywhere is something that scares me, I like when it's opt-in, sort of thing. @neauoire that makes a lot sense given the context of your environment and your work! It's certainly fundamentally incompatible with sailboat life. I go crazy being cooped up and depend heavily on coworking buddies so I'm very interested in anyone who's daydreaming about computing as a room-scale communal makerspace/library environment. @clarity What you're describing, I think, is a route toward consent, which I can appreciate, knowing that this is a space where you willing walk into the computer. @neauoire yeah absolutely. A world where my grocery store runs a projector+camera computer to surveil me sounds like hell. The researchers at dynamicland are very emphatic about resisting that, and I think this is a major reason the project -isn't- open-source. It's "communal-source" instead, open & modifiable to anyone who shares whatever space it's set up in. But it's worth talking about the risks here, because maybe they're opening the door to getting co-opted and corrupted someday. |
@neauoire
"The sensors in our current systems include off-the-shelf webcams, because our current systems are research prototypes. But an ideal sensor might, for example, sense physical material with high fidelity while being blind to human beings. Such sensors are more likely to be developed if we demonstrate the need for them.
"We are not proposing a future with cameras everywhere."
https://dynamicland.org/2024/FAQ/#Relationships_to_society