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I would like to become a publisher. The books would be read to you while the text scrolled. You could turn off either one, of course. What mainly stops this from being done is that commercial voices are expensive, and free voices are lousy. I think that implementing it the way I have in mind could dramatically affect the educational system; most of the books I would publish would be classics, not protected by copyright, and thus available at very low cost. All I would need to kick off this project would be a few very good voices and the software to synchronize the scrolling text with the voices.

This is a continuation of the old idea that hearing text read aloud is good for creating good readers. The problem that exists is that people are being force-fed with information all the time, so they become expert skimmers and ignorers. The way to put a dent in that habit is to encourage people to read or listen to every word in selected literature, at a comprehensible speed. The books would also be enhanced with pictures, word definitions, and maps.

Yes, current technology could do that now, but no one is trying very hard to actually do it.

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geneven,
you sent a chill down my spine as I read that.
That is such a clear understandable and practical idea :)

time codes and syncing are already possible and very real (as you say), however currently its done in reverse: subtitles on tv.

I can hear the speaker go mental as I do a big fast kinetic scroll!! (sure beats the wind noise I was thinking about)

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or maybe a flipping of papers? ;)

like some professor finding himself far out on a tangent, going over his notes, mumbling "where was i..." ;)

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hahaha tso, that would indeed be cool.

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I would like a desktop with more power than all of the gaming computers and supercomputers in the world combined, with a 100,000,000 Thz prosesor and 900,000,000,000 Thz gpu with 900,000,000,000,000 PB (petabytes) of disk space and 900,000,000,000,000,000,000 PB of RAM and a HD3D holigraphic 500 inch display with the resolution of 900,000,000,000 X 980,000,000,000,000 and It would also have the inteligents of a person with an iq of 300 so i can ask it eny question possible and it would know and it's release date is only 900 years away!

900 years later after he steps out of his time capsule.......

I finally have it, it's mine, Mohahahahaha!!!, MOHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!

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Dude, in 900 years we will be computers. Enough Said...

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As I said, I'm not that fluent with this stuff... I was thinking initially to initiate the SIP call on a remote tablet via ssh and the CLI. I realized this evening that all you need is x11vnc running on the tablet in the baby's room, and vnc viewer running on the tablet that you are using as the monitor. Then its simply a matter of vnc'ing into the remote tablet to initiate the call, and then answering that call on your own tablet. And yes, I know I'm off topic from the OP's initial post. Haven't tried it, but should work.

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We already have that. That sounds like Wikipedia.

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mmm starwars holographic projector. XD
on the "RealWorld" I think SNES emulation would be cool enough for me.

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After he is done hopping with joy he suddenly pauses, and then realized everyone around him was a robot!!!, he suddenly staggers to his knees and screems NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!, ROBOTS HAVE TAKEN OVER THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!, AHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

-the end...

:D