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As a follow-up of last week’s thoughts this breakdown and prediction by Paul Veugen are very insightful. Thinking along the same lines: apps will have more capabilities for the overarching bundling of intelligent conversational engines (via voice or chat). To add, I was wondering if we would have ghost apps that are only made for that engine. Like we have with restaurant kitchens that cater Uber Eats-like ordering services. Benedict Evans is drawing the same conclusions.
Last week we started shaping on the next big ThingsCon edition on Generative Things even more, and planning for two Salons after summer. Keep you posted!
Triggered thought
A short reflection this week. Triggered by a forwarded article by Dries about how people are fear for unrealness in the game of soccer (it seems a special topic these weeks) when we have data tracking in the balls; a sensor-based VAR. I had to think about a notice at an exhibition in Lisbon years that showed a connected ball prototype. What would happen if these balls were not only sensing but also acting? In the sense that actuators are changing the shape of the ball and in that way the trajectory? Not to change the game but to make it more smooth to look at? Autotune for things?
Does autotune guide the future reality? It seems to be accepted in music, not to cover up lacking singing capabilities but to make another total experience possible, like the dancing moves of an intense, expressive singer (think Troye Sivan). Autotune as a material, an instrument for making music. A music genre.
Autotune for all. Mastering AI tools might be one of the early forms of autotuning our thinking. Is Ethan hinting there too?
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