#contextual computing

Contextual Computingというものの「必要性」

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Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen Publication (Outlet/Website): The Good Men Project Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2025/05/26  John Levy, Co-founder, CEO, and Chair of SEEQC, talks about quantum computing as a company developing scalable, energy-efficient digital quantum systems. Levy discusses SEEQC’s origins in Hypres and its evolution through IARPA’s C3 program. The company uses…

In our highly monotropic family, we humorously but also seriously say, “Stop yanking my tendrils!” when someone crashes our stack during high memory state zone work. Interruptions are very dysregulating when they pull us out of an attention tunnel. “Tendrils” comes from “Tendril Theory”. Image credit: Tendril Theory – eisforerin When I’m focused on somethingMy mind sends out a million tendrils…

I consider text to be an indispensable part of our societies, no matter where situated on our planet. The potential permanence of the written record is vital to our recall of the past and to our ability to communicate with the future.Vinton G. Cerf, Foreword, The Future of Text We need to become better at being humans. Learning to use symbols and knowledge in new ways, across groups, across…

Democratizing Text: Multiplicities, Bicycles of the Mind, and Neurological Pluralism

David Sparks commented on my piece on contextual computing with these thoughtful words on democratizing text. There is a movement afoot to democratize text and hyperlinking on the web, in apps, and across our computers. For the longest time we’ve been spinning our wheels using computer data (particularly words) as digital approximations of the printed words that came before them. That needs to…

Contextual Computing, Workflow Thinking, and the Future of Text

I consider text to be an indispensable part of our societies, no matter where situated on our planet. The potential permanence of the written record is vital to our recall of the past and to our ability to communicate with the future.— Vinton G. Cerf Source: Foreword, The Future of Text We need to become better at being humans. Learning to use symbols and knowledge in new ways, across groups,…

this could lead to a new wave of context-based applications that are more accurate and nuanced than those using RFID or GPS... Though our devices already know plenty about us—our location, time of day, what’s on our calendar—there’s still an element of guesswork any time an app makes a decision on our behalf.