“How is noise created? No division. Example, imagine if you were in a restaurant and able to hear and participate in EVERY conversation. That's not the case though, you have immediate convo, might overhear, but the others are inaudible. Is that what this new media landscape is like?”
July 24 at 10:02 pm
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Would you realistically be able to sit at a table and listen to (or read) 2000 people and expect to focus? - Eric Rice
What ever happened to the idea of smart agents? These were supposed to do the heavy lifting for us in spaces like this. Gone the way of the flying cars and commuter jetpacks. Grrr... - Jim Stanger
One of the hardest things I'm working on in the Saijo Project is trying to explain the smart agent, something that is your access to anything you touch electronically, no matter how trivial. So, for Halo fans, if the Cortana AI for example, was your interface to EVERYthing digital. Sentient agents as well. - Eric Rice
your brain is designed to have selective focus in order to keep "noise" limited. New media fights really hard against this paradigm. - Steve Spalding
I saw a special that showed how your brain becomes more and more limited as you become an adult. Some people became extremely prolific artists in visual arts and poetry when this didn't happen. One guy was literally not able to fight the compulsion and even wrote a prominent doctor for help in the form of a poem. - ♫ Rahsheen™
If we could subscribe to ideas/concepts/tags/keywords on FriendFeed instead of people this tool would be an interesting start. Actually now that I type this I realize I could setup an imaginary friend that streams the feed of search query results. Might generate double entries, though. Meh, worth it for bullseye information. - Jim Stanger
There's a commonsense confound happening here ... multiple over-lapping convos are information rich ergo not entropic ergo not "noise" ... just too complex. But NB: "cocktail party effect" where it's measurable/reproducable that we in "noisy" environments we pick up on our own names. Go figure. Wet-brain DSP. - Bernard (ben) Tremblay
Yes. And we must listen with the third ear. Our focus must be flexible, changing as the input moves from relevant to irrelevant. - Steven E. Streight