Last night, a friend of mine was looking for something that he really needed and just couldn't find. We spent an hour looking everywhere without any luck, he was very frustrated. This reminded me of times when I would be looking for something and I would look through every square inch in my place without finding it or even getting close, then you start trying to trace back the last time you saw or used the item, but that doesn't help and you would get more pissed off.
At these situations, I always wish I could press CTRL+F on a virtual keyboard, and enter the name of the item that I'm looking for, and it would just point me to and highlight the item somehow. Geeky but very cool. I never told anyone that idea, but when I saw my friend in the same situation that I've been in many times, I asked him if he ever wished he could use CTRL-F in real life. And he said yes, he thought about it before. Then we started laughing at and discussing the idea further.
One day, people would think back and wonder how they ever lived without this.
CTRL-Z would also be extremely helpful by the way, but it's more complex from the technological and scientific perspective. So I'll leave that for another day.
Friday, March 13, 2009
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What about rewind capability, for those moments when you weren't paying as much attention to what was being said as you should've been? Or even pause, to give you a few extra moments to digest what someone just told you before they jump into yet another topic?
ReplyDeleteWhen we're all finally simulations existing in a virtual world, all that sort of stuff will come as part of the package, I think.