[math-fun] social networking cellular computations
After attending CES2017 (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas this month, I concluded that the following device is inevitable, so I started thinking about what sorts of computations & patterns that might be obtained. One of the interesting things is the progress of "wearable computers", in which computation is embedded in socks, gloves, shirts, glasses, etc. I haven't seen a fully-electronic T-shirt yet, but it's inevitable. By "electronic T-shirt", I mean one with a (bit-mapped?) display on the front & back which can display any stupid thing that your heart desires -- e.g., "I'm with stupid", etc. If there is a display on your sleeve, you could literally wear year heart on your sleeve. Now such a stand-alone display is interesting, but would get boring after perhaps 5 minutes. Far more interesting is a display *that senses & reacts to other people's displays* -- probably by using Bluetooth LE, ANT+, or some other short-range wireless technology. You've probably heard the phrase "he was swayed by the last person he talked with"; an old joke recognizes this tendency and suggests that such information simply be displayed on his forehead. Well, an electronic T-shirt could do exactly that: indicate some amalgam of the electronic T-shirts that our target T-shirt had been recently close to. So, what if each such T-shirt had the same finite set of states, and all the T-shirts had the same rule for combining the states of the N closest T-shirts in order to compute this T-shirt's next state ? What kinds of computations & patterns could be obtained from such a cellular model? One could implement such a device today using Bluetooth smartwatches or smartrings (yes, they were at CES2017) communicating amongst themselves; of course, displaying the results on a T-shirt would be a lot more dramatic. BTW, this sort of model isn't 100% novel; I referred to a similar model here last November: SCHELLING, T. 1971. "Dynamic Models of Segregation". Journal of Mathematical Sociology 1: 143-186. https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/157/Papers/Schelling_Seg_Models.pdf
What I want is a t-shirt display that's linked directly to my brain so I can display graphics without having to draw them on the whiteboard or a piece of paper. Cuttlefish do it - why not us. Brent Meeker On 1/30/2017 8:31 AM, Henry Baker wrote:
After attending CES2017 (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas this month, I concluded that the following device is inevitable, so I started thinking about what sorts of computations & patterns that might be obtained.
One of the interesting things is the progress of "wearable computers", in which computation is embedded in socks, gloves, shirts, glasses, etc.
I haven't seen a fully-electronic T-shirt yet, but it's inevitable. By "electronic T-shirt", I mean one with a (bit-mapped?) display on the front & back which can display any stupid thing that your heart desires -- e.g., "I'm with stupid", etc. If there is a display on your sleeve, you could literally wear year heart on your sleeve.
Now such a stand-alone display is interesting, but would get boring after perhaps 5 minutes.
Far more interesting is a display *that senses & reacts to other people's displays* -- probably by using Bluetooth LE, ANT+, or some other short-range wireless technology.
You've probably heard the phrase "he was swayed by the last person he talked with"; an old joke recognizes this tendency and suggests that such information simply be displayed on his forehead.
Well, an electronic T-shirt could do exactly that: indicate some amalgam of the electronic T-shirts that our target T-shirt had been recently close to.
So, what if each such T-shirt had the same finite set of states, and all the T-shirts had the same rule for combining the states of the N closest T-shirts in order to compute this T-shirt's next state ?
What kinds of computations & patterns could be obtained from such a cellular model?
One could implement such a device today using Bluetooth smartwatches or smartrings (yes, they were at CES2017) communicating amongst themselves; of course, displaying the results on a T-shirt would be a lot more dramatic.
BTW, this sort of model isn't 100% novel; I referred to a similar model here last November:
SCHELLING, T. 1971. "Dynamic Models of Segregation". Journal of Mathematical Sociology 1: 143-186.
https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/157/Papers/Schelling_Seg_Models.pdf
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Do we really want other people to see everything we're thinking?
-----Original Message----- From: math-fun [mailto:math-fun-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Brent Meeker Sent: Monday, January 30, 2017 7:08 PM To: math-fun Subject: Re: [math-fun] social networking cellular computations
What I want is a t-shirt display that's linked directly to my brain so I can display graphics without having to draw them on the whiteboard or a piece of paper. Cuttlefish do it - why not us.
Brent Meeker
I'm assuming I would control it as I control my hand drawing graphs and cuttlefish control their displays. Brent On 1/30/2017 5:58 PM, David Wilson wrote:
Do we really want other people to see everything we're thinking?
-----Original Message----- From: math-fun [mailto:math-fun-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Brent Meeker Sent: Monday, January 30, 2017 7:08 PM To: math-fun Subject: Re: [math-fun] social networking cellular computations
What I want is a t-shirt display that's linked directly to my brain so I can display graphics without having to draw them on the whiteboard or a piece of paper. Cuttlefish do it - why not us.
Brent Meeker
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