I am working with my students on a research proposal to the National Science Foundation. The general idea of what we are up to is a sort of mixed-reality equivalent of Google Docs. Except instead of the shared “document” being just on everyone’s screen, it can also be in your physical space.<\/p>\n
All of this would be using technology that doesn’t quite exist yet in the form that we’d like. But that’s why it’s research. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Google Docs is indeed a powerful tool for collaboration, and I don’t think we could be collaborating as well if we didn’t have it. And yet here we are, proposing to create something which may end up supplanting it in some ways.<\/p>\n
I think that’s the way it is with tools. You use the best tools you can get your hands on, and sometimes you use them to make even better tools.<\/p>\n
In a way you are building a kind of ladder of tools. You may eventually jump to those new tools, and abandon the old ones. But that is not a sign that those older tools have failed. It’s a sign that they have succeeded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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