Role: Designer
Schedule: Ongoing
Team: 1
In Japanaese, mirai, a word for future, reads something like "not yet come."
The first character implies an indeterminism, very different than the "inevitable" futures we grew up believe would come from the inexorable march of time and progress in the US.
You can read it another way: MiRAI as Mixed Reality & Artificial Intelligence.
Most devices talk to each other even now.
Devices will see the world to various degrees.
Devices will know where they sit in the world relative to each other and other digital landmarks.
Neurodiversity of thinking and communicating with shapes and images.
The road to LSI starts with today's heads-up, hands-free interaction models.
Although today's devices don't understand personal quirks and require "one size fits all" wake words and visual affordances, as devices understand more and more of human and environmental context, device ecosystems will learn user behvaior and visible affordances will diminish and "hide."
In the near future, computers that don't automatically recognize and band together with other computers will seem antisocial, antiproductive, and antiquated.
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Images by me.
3D scan by Jean Charles, orange woman photographer unknown.