Professional software engineer, amateur photographer, tech & video game enthusiast, elder millennial, destroyer of waffles.

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  • I had Google Glass when it came out. It was essentially this, but the tech at the time was still too bulky and voice and other things that would’ve made it better were not quite ready yet. A little too ahead of its time, but the idea was there. In fact, since then, I’ve seen attempts to do what you’re asking, and we’re getting closer. The problems now are the cameras & microphones and privacy, and bulkiness of the devices.


  • Not sure about you, but recently, a lot more of those online behaviors have started appearing IRL.

    That means that people already did these things, but, like alcohol, the Internet lowers the inhibitions to not behave like that. It’s a pretty short leap to say that, if you spend a lot of time online, these behaviors will become a large part of who you are on and off the Internet.

    Does it mean that people can’t relearn how not to act like that? No, but it’s gonna be hard.




  • I work for a division of a health tech company and I can say that we hear you and value this kind of feedback. There are folks I work with who have dedicated themselves (including myself) to seek solutions to problems like these, and as a former integrations engineer, some companies are better at interoperability than others, despite the efforts of the HITECH Act in the US. My frustration is time and getting the attention of those who greenlight projects to work on things like these. On one hand, I feel OSS could help solve these problems sooner, but on the other hand, healthcare has some very opinionated people and things could get messy.