{"id":80,"date":"2005-11-21T03:39:35","date_gmt":"2005-11-21T07:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soulhuntre.com\/items\/date\/2005\/11\/21\/this-is-seriously-cool-tech-and-its-here-now\/"},"modified":"2005-11-21T03:39:35","modified_gmt":"2005-11-21T07:39:35","slug":"this-is-seriously-cool-tech-and-its-here-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/2005\/11\/21\/this-is-seriously-cool-tech-and-its-here-now\/","title":{"rendered":"This is seriously cool tech&#8230; and it&#039;s here &gt;now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spaces.msn.com\/members\/mike\/Blog\/cns!1pG4qKNdtRA5Nl-UhvZI_1rQ!4699.entry\">Convergence is inevitable<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>But to see the start of convergence in action, take a look at my (actual) day today:<\/p>\n<p>I went for a walk through downtown Seattle starting at about 12:30, ending at about 3:30.&nbsp; At the start of my walk, I plugged headphones into my phone, pressed the &#8220;voice command&#8221; button and said &#8220;dial 800 808 1336&#8221;.&nbsp; A few seconds later I was speaking to a Sprint representative about my latest bill.&nbsp; Once I was satisfied with her explanation, I paid it via credit card over the phone.&nbsp; Upon hanging up, I said &#8220;Play Christmas&#8221; which opened up Windows Media Player and started playing a Christmas music mix (yes, I actually like holiday music!)&nbsp; I dropped my phone into my coat pocket and continued walking.<\/p>\n<p>A few minutes later the music paused and my phone started vibrating.&nbsp; I pressed the button on my headphones to answer.&nbsp; It was Carmen; I spoke to her for about 10 minutes&#8230;&nbsp; when finished, I pressed the button to hang up and the music started up again automatically.&nbsp; I never took the phone out of my pocket.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Convergence is inevitable But to see the start of convergence in action, take a look at my (actual) day today: I went for a walk through downtown Seattle starting at about 12:30, ending at about 3:30.&nbsp; At the start of my walk, I plugged headphones into my phone, pressed the &#8220;voice command&#8221; button and said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":53206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}