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Your computer knows or can know:
how much money you have
how to book train tickets
how to book flights
when you are meant to be where (calendar)
what you like to eat
where you are
what meetings you have
where you're staying the night
how many calories you need
how many calories
are in a meal
what menus are available nearby
if you are staying in a hotel
if the hotel does room service
I propose that operating systems become food-aware
systems.
In Android you swipe from the top and click Food.
In Windows you click Start and click Food (or click he food
icon
next to the clock in the notification area)
Rather than opening an app to manage your money or order
food, you can let your operating system do it.
You let the computer know you are a hungry it manages the
picking of a meal. It scours the reviews of different food
options and the locality and picks an option which is nearby
and reasonably reviewed.
Your computer can book your train or flight tickets and hotel
bookings on your behalf too.
I propose calendaring is used to decide where and when to
book things on my behalf.
The Gift
https://www.youtube...watch?v=5eIMafROjyo
Sci-fi short [Voice, Apr 18 2020]
[link]
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in general, we should use computers to make our lives eaier |
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> in general, we should use computers to make our lives
eaier |
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I agree we should use computers to make our lives eaier |
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Uber Eats (food), Just Eat (food), Expedia (travel), Booking
(hotels), Yolt (money aggregagation) and equivalent apps just
make my life more complicated. I want the computer to do
the work. |
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If someone can make money from it, it will happen. |
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Not sure why this needs to be implemented at the OS level rather than the application level; it seems more like an application thing. |
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I think it would cool if the desktop was a bit like a Heads Up
Display. It shows my full name, why can't it show personal
details about my life? |
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"Sir, you last ate at 8am. Your next meal is scheduled at
10am. I have contacted the vending machine at your
convenience and decided that you would enjoy a peanut
butter Kitkat." |
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I'm starting to think that [chronological] wants to
completely remove their brain; do absolutely no thinking
and let a computer run their entire life.
Subroutine: breathe in <pause>
Subroutine: heart beat <pause>
Subroutine: breathe out <pause>
Subroutine: heart beat <pause>
Subroutine: breathe in <pause>
Subroutine: heart beat <pause>
... |
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Eighth, it really would be an application (It would be bad to
pollute kernel space code with user space), just with tight
integration with the desktop. Whereas typical apps show as
much as possible to maximise decision making, I propose this
takes decisions away from you by default and picks sensible
defaults. |
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So you want some thing to eat, it picks Italian by default.
Kidding. You can at least pick the kind of food and meal you
want to eat. |
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If the heuristic algorithms are sufficiently good, it would be able to predict the food type, quantity and time, shirley ? |
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//typical apps show as much as possible to maximise decision
making// |
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This is true only in so far as typical apps are designed by
inexperienced developers. |
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The young, keen developer builds a UI with the subtext "look at
all the cool stuff I've made - can I have a gold star?" The
journeyman developer, with longer exposure to users, starts by
understanding as thoroughly as possible what the user has to
accomplish, then approaches as near as possible to a UI with
one button, labelled "Just fucking do it", while carefully
concealing all the whirring gears which make "it" possible. The
master developer, entirely lost to weltschmerz and cynicism,
builds a headless server process, and composes a PowerPoint
which tactfully conveys to senior management the cost savings
they can achieve by firing the users and handing their jobs to the
algorithm. |
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You have reason to be grateful, then, if you are still seeing
applications which demand decisions of you. |
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//Sir, you last ate at 8am. Your next meal is scheduled at 10am. I have contacted the vending machine at your convenience and decided that you would enjoy a peanut butter Kitkat.// AARGH YOU STUPID MACHINE DON'T CALL ME SIR AND YOU KNOW I HATE PEANUT BUTTER AND DONT BLOODY CALL ME SIR <pulls power cable out> |
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When we finally do have the strong AI it would take to make this possible, I want a snooty English robobutler capable of being perfectly polite while simultaneously sneering and snarking at everything less well-dressed and English than the Queen at a wedding. |
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"Be told by Jeeves" instead of "Ask Jeeves" ? |
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Stephen Fry could voice the AI - very appropriate. |
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We understand that [Voice] is currently seeking a new situation. |
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Of course, there would be the issue of the strong odour of stale urine arising from infrequently-changed underclothing. But if you keep a window open, and put some Magic Tree air fresheners in your pockets, it shouldn't bother him too much. |
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