{"id":3472,"date":"2010-07-08T04:59:27","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T04:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3472"},"modified":"2010-07-08T04:59:27","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T04:59:27","slug":"coolest-toy-ever-until-we-get-daemon-style-augmented-reality-glasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3472","title":{"rendered":"Coolest Toy Ever Until We Get Daemon-style Augmented Reality Glasses*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" src=\"http:\/\/mac.appstorm.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/ipad2.jpg\" height=\"385\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B002C7481G?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=zenpundit-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B002C7481G\"><strong>Apple iPad MB292LL\/A Tablet (16GB, Wifi)<\/strong><\/a><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=zenpundit-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B002C7481G\" height=\"1\" style=\"margin: 0px; border: medium none\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Received a 32 GB model as a Father&#8217;s Day present. While I am not sure if\u00a0the <strong>iPad<\/strong> will <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/is-the-ipad-the-new-guillotine\">ignite a social revolution<\/a>, as <strong>Howard Bloom<\/strong> does, or further <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanscholar.org\/solitude-and-leadership\/\">diminish our ability to read for a sustained period of time<\/a>, as does <strong>William Deresiewicz, <\/strong>the iPad is an absolutely\u00a0remarkable mobile Web 2.0 device. Is it<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/scobleizer.com\/2010\/04\/14\/why-was-apples-prediction-on-ipads-so-wrong\/\"> flawless<\/a>? <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2010\/01\/27\/ipad\/\">No<\/a>.\u00a0 But give<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steve_Jobs\"> <strong>Steven Jobs<\/strong> <\/a>credit as an intuitive psychologist, the man connected <strong>Web 2.0<\/strong> and the potential of infinite <strong>app<\/strong>\u00a0innovation\u00a0with\u00a0the fundamental human sense of the <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tactile\">tactile<\/a><\/strong> and delivered it up\u00a0to the masses. That&#8217;s Edisonian capitalism.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shloky<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/shloky.com\/?p=2361\">likes it too<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B003L1ZXCU?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=zenpundit-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=B003L1ZXCU\">Daemon<\/a><\/strong> refers to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Daemon_(technothriller_series)\">the novel <\/a>by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thedaemon.com\/\"><strong>Daniel Suarez<\/strong> <\/a>, where a renegade<strong> Ai<\/strong> program, &#8220;the Daemon&#8221; orchestrates and serves\u00a0a darknet of human agents partly through the medium of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Augmented_reality\">augmented reality <\/a>technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple iPad MB292LL\/A Tablet (16GB, Wifi) Received a 32 GB model as a Father&#8217;s Day present. While I am not sure if\u00a0the iPad will ignite a social revolution, as Howard Bloom does, or further diminish our ability to read for a sustained period of time, as does William Deresiewicz, the iPad is an absolutely\u00a0remarkable mobile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[360,590,220,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-capitalism","category-tech","category-web-20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}