integrated into the world around them? seems to me, humans have been quite integrated into the world around them for thousands of years WITHOUT electronics. the man on the bus talking on his cell phone, the teenager playing his nintendo ds in the mall, and the child watching a movie on an airplane are totally disconnected from the world around them.

this kind of technology might actually cause people to submerge even deeper into the virtual electronic world and blind them from the world around them. they'er going to use this kind of device to ESCAPE the world around them--to play games, chat with their friends, and check their e-mail. internet access makes the world around you irrelevant. wherever you are, the internet is the same.

hey, don't get me wrong. i love being submerged, disconnected, distracted, what-have-you. i just found it a bit amusing and thought-provoking that they would make a statement like that. they were "thinking about how a person could be more integrated into the world around them" by manipulating the world around them with this augmented reality--projected images from the internet, an inorganic, cold, digital surreality. a strange concept, i think. a strange connection to make, and an interesting--possibly absurd, possibly revolutionary--way of thinking about gadgets and the internet....