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Re:Cal Newport on Why We'll Look Back at Our Smartphones Lik... by hackermailman on Thursday January 31, 2019 @10:58AM (#19045636)
Three sentences: https://www.samuelthomasdavies.com/book-summaries/business/d... I think the author himself has a one page blog post summarizing it as well.

I agree with him about the smartphone cancer that has crept into all our lives though I imagine there will be much worse distractions in the near future like deep learning phones that can tell us everything going on in a room the moment we enter it (since everybody else also has the same device). Permanent HUD like a James Cameron scifi

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Re:Cal Newport on Why We'll Look Back at Our Smartphones Lik... by walterbell on Thursday January 31, 2019 @11:15AM (#19045801)
> deep learning phones that can tell us everything going on in a room

What information would be on this HUD? Do you mean real-time voice analysis?

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Re:Cal Newport on Why We'll Look Back at Our Smartphones Lik... by hackermailman on Thursday January 31, 2019 @11:31AM (#19046003)
It was from slides in a deep learning CMU course with examples such as walking into a restaurant with group seating where staff immediately knows your name and preferences/allergies, and you immediately have information on what topic each table is talking about and in what languages (which are automatically translated) what seats are free to sit at, which order is currently being cooked, ect. The idea was a scenario where each room you walk into your device can tell you everything there is to know.
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Re:Cal Newport on Why We'll Look Back at Our Smartphones Lik... by thisisit on Thursday January 31, 2019 @11:50AM (#19046173)
> I think the author himself has a one page blog post summarizing it as well.

Link please.

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Re:Cal Newport on Why We'll Look Back at Our Smartphones Lik... by flying_kangaroo on Thursday January 31, 2019 @12:49PM (#19046865)
If you do a search across his blog there's various articles touching on different parts. Here's one such:

http://calnewport.com/blog/2012/11/21/knowledge-workers-are-...

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