Think about the way your finger acts when you accidentally touch a burning hot skillet: It pulls away immediately, even before your brain has time to register a sensation of pain.<\/p>\n
The part of your nervous system that makes this happen doesn’t know why it is pulling away, or even what a skillet is. Its only concern is immediate survival, and protecting your body from harm.<\/p>\n
After you’ve had a moment to get your wits back, you most likely run your finger under cold water, fetch some ointment, put on a protective bandage. Sometime later, reflecting on this incident, you might purchase a nice pair of oven mitts.<\/p>\n
Notice that there are three types of thinking involved here: (1) How you reflexively respond in the immediate moment, (2) What you do with conscious awareness immediately after that, and (3) The plans you make for the long term.<\/p>\n
Yesterday we talked about the computational equivalent of the first two modes. The Cloud represents the third.<\/p>\n
It’s really the combination of all three, working together, that will allow your future wearable to function as an experiential super-computer.<\/p>\n
More tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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