Today I was reading an article that talked about espresso in a way that made me curious about the origins of espresso. Typing ‘espresso’ into Google took me to the Wikipedia page.<\/p>\n
From there I learned that Angelo Mariando received an Italian patent for an early version of an espresso machine in 1884. Seventeen years later his invention was improved upon by Luigi Bezzera of Milan.<\/p>\n
That patent was then purchased in 1905 by Desiderio Pavoni, and in 1906 La Pavoni<\/i> became the first industrially manufactured espresso machine.<\/p>\n
It occurs to me that at some point in the near future, through a combination of wearable technology and various applications of artificial intelligence, I will be able to acquire all that knowledge essentially in real time.<\/p>\n
For example, suppose you and I are having a conversation about espresso, and I start to wonder where the underlying technology originated. I could easily pepper my conversation with some unobtrusive keywords, and combine those words with a few small hand gestures and eye movements to quickly look up the history of espresso.<\/p>\n
By the time it is my turn to speak, I might already know the answer. I will then be able to use that knowledge in our conversation.<\/p>\n
This won’t seem like some sort of magic power, since everyone else we know will be able to do the same sort of thing. Instant lookup will simply be normal, a aspect of everyday conversation that will be universally taken for granted.<\/p>\n
It will be interesting to see what effect this will have on human discourse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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