So you think 6th sense technology will impact our lives?

Great link! Thanks for sharing! I’m fascinated by the technology, and I do think a lot of it will come to fruition in the next decade. Overall, this would be extremely useful technology.
That said, I’m not sure I like the idea of people being able to see all the “tags” related to me when they look at me. I have an extremely ecclectic personality, and have a wide variety of interests. Things that are important to me are not always accepted in the various groups I interact with. For example, I lobby for gay rights, but don’t know that I’d want that to be broadcast when I’m working with returning soldiers to ensure their legal rights are upheld, since my work for the department of defense puts me in the company of people who are very uncomfortable discussing “the gay issue.” Don’t get me wrong… I’m very public on my stance with gay rights (being published on the subject doesn’t allow me much anonymity), but there is an appropriate time and place to bring various things into the conversation. I also do a lot of electronic communication with my family, through blogs, FaceBook, etc. While none of it is inappropriate, I don’t want my personal preferences and life events to be broadcast during a job interview where my personal life is none of their business. I also teach college students. A certain degree of separation is required when I do that, and I’m not sure I want to be completely transparent when lecturing, meeting with students, etc. Nor do I want to be completely transparent with the employees and managers I work with (I’m in human resources, and again, have to maintain a degree of separation to be successful in that role). My opinion on that part of this technology depends to a great extent on how much control individuals will have over the information that is linked to them. For example, I don’t care who knows I have horses, live in the country, enjoy the outdoors, etc., and those are all factors that can help people get to know me. I just don’t want my other views/activities to be quite so visible to complete strangers.
Great question!

I totaly agree with you and I am concerned that somehow newer technology adoption will lead us to transparency sooner or later. Even if you have the choice of what the others can see about you I am sure there will be hacks and cracks used that will allow them to see everything. So it may lead to completely anonimous comunication via the internet

This is awesome. :D

But I think “sixth sense technology” is a misnomer. This is just a revolutionary new graphical user interface for your cell phone, and the software to use it. It’ll more naturally connect you to the internet, and that’s awesome, but it won’t let you perceive anything you can’t otherwise perceive about the world around you. It’ll just tell you things about it from an online database.
It won’t be much use in the middle of a rainforest.

I was thinking of infrared goggles, or geiger counters. That’s sixth sense technology.

I agree with @Fyrius it’s a little misleading isn’t it… but the technology…WOW…the implications of it would need a lot of thinking through and could create a massive divide between people that have access to that knowledge and level of technology and those that don’t…forcing the ever increasing issue of money evermore in to the forefron tof how society functions… I’m not sure I like the idea… it’s a bit…scary….

Great Question and Great Link..I love TED..it’s brill!!

@Fyrius
or radar/sonar as additional senses or as substitute for blind people.

The concept is interesting, but I think people won’t like being projected on…me personally, I’d punch someone in the dick if they projected on my person (to quote my friend Ryan).

lol! @sndfreQ i understand you. this is weard technology

@Sebulba hehe…even though I’m a techno-evangelist, I still get weirded out when I see people talking to themselves in the supermarket with the bluetooth thing sticking in their ear!

Reminds me of this guy (from Star Wars)! p.s. Welcome to Fluther Sebulba and fellow ex-patriates of Answerbagger!

Common sense will become a praised virtue.

“He’s a self-thinker, very wise man – I heard of his kind many many years ago.”

@Xilas
Good point.
And what if the information these gadgets intersperse our lives with is not as reliable as everyone assumes? What if the databases it consults for everything end up in the hands of someone with a hidden agenda? The propaganda possibilities would be hard to overestimate if you can have your say about everything everywhere to everyone.

Yes, the conspiracy theories are starting already.

and unless the Operational system is a distribution of linux, it will be chocked full of advertisements…

@Fyrius good point…and let’s not discount the possibility of hackers infiltrating and manipulating data!

btw im writing a book about this.

“I hear there is a place where people grow there on produce, a place of shamans… I wonder if it really exist”

My last question on AB was about this technology only.The link gives total description to the questions asked
http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/1824442
Thanks to the toil and hardwork of Pranav Mistry the inventor that’s going to change the face of the technology.In a nurshell,it would reduce the number of gadgets we carry and restrain us from being a machines sitting infront of another machines.

@Xilas Based on some of the info I’ve seen (much of it from @engineeristerminatorisWOLV ), I think it safe to say that it will be Linux-based.

As cool as it is, I don’t see it coming out soon. I mean, look as how many people still use IE just because it came with their PC! Firefox may be growing, but even many years after it’s introduction, it’s still a minority thing. Hell, even GUIs took a while to go from a niche thing to becoming mainstream.

Another problem is that we still have people who can’t even use many of the basic functions of a regular computer, so I think a paradigm shift like Sixth Sense may actually scare a lot of people and that others will be initially intrigued but quickly frustrated by the fact that they actually have to learn something in order to use it.

Personally, I hope I am wrong. I hope that people will see Sixth Sense and embrace it and quickly adopt it. However, I am a little to cynical to be terribly optimistic. After all, look at LaserDisc.