Pinwheel flowers: "What is this, a G+ for ants?", 2 steps forward, 1 step back? (an old human thing?), 3 steps forward, 2 steps back?, 4 steps forward, 3 steps back? Could we program or wiki add into G+x, 5 steps forward, and 4 steps back and then also add machine learning the way we want it? ... and develop G+ for 3D virtual worlds, as dancing avatars (5 years out)? :), "Marin Marušić Yesterday 2:55 PM +Linus Torvalds don't you understand ... you're an engineer, you, of all people, should understand ... "Profiles in the new Google+ have been streamlined and simplified"", Do you really mean that avatars might be dancing out of the screen and all over us, the world, holograpically even, speaking all 7,938+ languages from G+, Princess Leia projection, Could these avatars as kinds of "light robots" step out of the screen eventually? In Google searching on "mit floating digital light objects" and "mit floating digital holographic projections," I found the following, Code SQL with VOICE in multiple languages in Wikidata

https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/2Ndtw3ZBRX2

Venu Gopal

Commented "Right on dot Sir. The world i..." on: "What is this, a G+ for ants?" The "new G+" seems to have dropped the support for more than two columns. So it's back to the bad old days of 50% gray horizontal space. Because clearly there is no...

Linus Torvalds

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"What is this, a G+ for ants?"

The "new G+" seems to have dropped the support for more than two columns. So it's back to the bad old days of 50% gray horizontal space. Because clearly there is no better use for it.

Maybe google doesn't buy their engineers any good monitors, and so they haven't learnt about that whole 4k screen thing? But the old G+ at least gave me three columns.\

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Scott MacLeod (WUaS)

Yesterday 8:50 AM

2 steps forward, 1 step back? (an old human thing?), 3 steps forward, 2 steps back?, 4 steps forward, 3 steps back? Could we program or wiki add into G+x, 5 steps forward, and 4 steps back and then also add machine learning the way we want it? ... and develop G+ for 3D virtual worlds, as dancing avatars (5 years out)? :)

Scott MacLeod (Musical-Aphilo)

Yesterday 12:41 PM

And how soon? :)

Marin Marušić

Yesterday 2:55 PM

+Linus Torvalds don't you understand ... you're an engineer, you, of all people, should understand ... "Profiles in the new Google+ have been streamlined and simplified" ... I mean, streamlined and simplified... Who doesn't like streamlined and simplified ... Might as well say it's for morons, you'll like it.

Bah... might as well get started on the new stylesheet for G+ ... again.

I think, they think since they are in userspace, they are allowed to break things :P Hey Google, that's not true in UX either.

I just remembered the rant about Roboto from about 2-3 years ago :) Same shit again, and#whitespace too ... 

Scott MacLeod (Helianth)

Yesterday 3:10 PM

Do you really mean that avatars might be dancing out of the screen and all over us, the world, holograpically even, speaking all 7,938+ languages from G+, Marim? What a mind boggling circle dance that will be! :)

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The idea here could be a kind of Princess Leia projection, for example, as real virtual avatar ...

Leia Organa's holographic message for Obi-Wan Kenobi (from Star Wars).

See, too:

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Could these avatars as kinds of "light robots" step out of the screen eventually? 

http://worlduniversityandschool.org

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In Google searching on "mit floating digital light objects" and "mit floating digital holographic projections," I found the following:

http://b.fastcompany.net/multisite_files/codesign/imagecache/inline-large/post-inline/zeron2.jpg
http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669799/mit-creates-amazing-ui-from-levitating-orbs

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http://c.fastcompany.net/multisite_files/codesign/imagecache/1280/article_feature/1280-zeron3.jpg
http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669799/mit-creates-amazing-ui-from-levitating-orbs

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http://www.technologyreview.com/sites/default/files/images/wild.resavex519.jpg
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/540841/when-virtual-reality-collides-with-reality-its-surreal/

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http://img.gizmag.com/ultrasound-3d-haptic.jpg?ch=Width&fit=crop&h=394&q=60&w=700&s=b0718d443e82baf9840dae37652a10f9

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http://www.gizmag.com/ultrasound-3d-haptic-hologram/35032/

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http://pop.h-cdn.co/assets/cm/15/05/54cb27650b25a_-_mit-projection-mdn.jpg

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/a9951/mit-is-building-tony-starks-transparent-projection-screen-16405718/

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http://news.mit.edu/2013/cheap-color-holographic-video-0619

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holography

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MIT Hands out of a Screen ...

MIT Invents A Shapeshifting Display You Can Reach Through And Touch

THE TANGIBLE MEDIA GROUP AT MIT'S MEDIA LAB HAS UNVEILED A FUTURISTIC DISPLAY MADE OF ATOMS, NOT PIXELS.

http://www.fastcodesign.com/3021522/innovation-by-design/mit-invents-a-shapeshifting-display-you-can-reach-through-and-touch


See, too:

MIT invents shapeshifting robotic screen that mimics your hands from the other side of the world

http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/125123-mit-invents-shapeshifting-robotic-screen-that-mimics-your-hands-from-the-other-side-of-the-world


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Avatar agency as defined by the Turing Test?

A totally fascinating possibility and scary too.


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I'm excited for the time too when we may be able to code SQL (structured query language), for example, with VOICE and in multiple languages in Wikidata and beyond Google Voice and Siri ... which we will be even easier with brain wave headsets in the future, anticipating adding avatars of our imagining, without language or gestures.

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