Clyde DeSouza's Blog - Posts Tagged "surrogates"
Huffington Post - Memories With Maya is a magic carpet ride...
At the Being Human 2013 Conference in San Francisco, publisher and moderator Peter Baumann refreshed us with the absence of contention. Minds were on free-range looseness that served up, as Jason Silva appropriately calls it, plenty of "shots of awe."
I got my own personal shot of awe when author Clyde DeSouza asked me to review his "sci-fi" novel, Memories With Maya. He pulls an epic amount of research into his storyline on augmented eyeglass technology and visorwear. In his novel, two friends invent the AR/AGI Wizer, and add sensory haptics for a remote interface experience, so that full-body enhancement is "fleshed out" with a friend of your choice.
DeSouza goes even further, by suggesting memories in the brain of lost loved ones can be uploaded into Wizer, where they are retrieved "from the dead." They become dearly beloved "dirrogates," and their memory "lives on," thanks to the non-referential locality of memory in the brain. When a virtual marriage took place several years ago, the digital world blessed the union. The groom couldn't live without his Second Life virtual partner, so he married her.
DeSouza's book sent me on a nomadic techno-journey across digital territory for weeks. Now I was late publishing his review, but I couldn't help myself. My brain, hijacked by millions of neurons, was feeding off the unlimited supply of high-carb links DeSouza sent, which included inventors of 3D/AGI visor/ eyewear that I could actually buy without a prescription or even a special invite.
read the whole review on The Huffington Post
I got my own personal shot of awe when author Clyde DeSouza asked me to review his "sci-fi" novel, Memories With Maya. He pulls an epic amount of research into his storyline on augmented eyeglass technology and visorwear. In his novel, two friends invent the AR/AGI Wizer, and add sensory haptics for a remote interface experience, so that full-body enhancement is "fleshed out" with a friend of your choice.
DeSouza goes even further, by suggesting memories in the brain of lost loved ones can be uploaded into Wizer, where they are retrieved "from the dead." They become dearly beloved "dirrogates," and their memory "lives on," thanks to the non-referential locality of memory in the brain. When a virtual marriage took place several years ago, the digital world blessed the union. The groom couldn't live without his Second Life virtual partner, so he married her.
DeSouza's book sent me on a nomadic techno-journey across digital territory for weeks. Now I was late publishing his review, but I couldn't help myself. My brain, hijacked by millions of neurons, was feeding off the unlimited supply of high-carb links DeSouza sent, which included inventors of 3D/AGI visor/ eyewear that I could actually buy without a prescription or even a special invite.
read the whole review on The Huffington Post
