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| For no reason at all I'd like to go off on a tangent about something completely by Rafiki 10/18/2013, 10:29am PDT | ||||
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I love those moments where I've been mulling something over in my head for a long time, and then out of nowhere I come across an article or bit of information that I wasn't even looking for that explains what I was thinking about. For example, ever since Google Glass was announced I've been silently raging to myself about how much I hate voice recognition as a general purpose technology because I think it's intrusive and requires you to focus your attention on the object being spoken to at the expense of what you really want to focus on. Then in the middle of this Wikipedia article you linked, I see this: In every given moment, there is a great deal of information made available to each individual. Psychologists have found that one's mind can attend to only a certain amount of information at a time. According to Mihaly's 1956 study, that number is about 126 bits of information per second. That may seem like a large number (and a lot of information), but simple daily tasks take quite a lot of information. Just having a conversation takes about 40 bits of information per second; that's 1/3 of one's capacity.[7] That is why when having a conversation one cannot focus as much attention on other things. AND THIS IS WHY MY HOLY GRAIL OF UIs ISN'T THE FUCKING STAR TREK COMPUTER. GIVE IT UP, YOU FUCKING GEEKS. IT'S ONLY GOOD ON TELEVISION. |
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