Don’t Say It Outloud—Augmented Reality
I was chatting with “the kids these days” about their use of TikTok instead of Google. Since the flags here are half mast, the kids (not my kids) showed me using TikTok to search for “did someone die?” Morbid, I know, but the search result was excellent content showing a ninety second video explaining who had passed with a bunch more followup videos of different people talking about the event, its historical importance, etc. How would I, the neanderthal, handle the situation? By using a web search for it, reading an article on CNN, and if I wanted to know more, I might click my way over to Wikipedia. Why are the kids using TikTok? I blame AirPods. If you grew up watching Star Trek: The Next Generation, you can probably picture scenes where LaForge or Data is having a dynamic conversation with the computer in engineering as they try to research or problem solve the way out of yet another conundrum. The moment another person enters the scene, they stop the conversation, and switch to ...