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Marvin Minsky – Web of Stories (webofstories.com)
104 points by dstein64 on Jan 26, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


You can see the zero bandwidth video phone at Nicholas Negroponte TED talk "A 30-year history of the future" - https://www.ted.com/talks/nicholas_negroponte_a_30_year_hist...


That actually sounds like a cool idea for a new wave of mobile apps...

Anyone remember the "emotion wheel" from that Microsoft Comic Chat [1] app of old? If I recall correctly, when you typed something like "lol" it would automatically pick the laughing image, and so on.

Something like that, with reconstructions of your actual face based on how your voice sounds (after you've trained it with a few expressions) should be possible with current tech.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Comic_Chat


Google Hangouts has a feature that sounds a bit like Comic Chat. When you type in certain phrases an animation will briefly play at the bottom of the window. Certain triggers I've noticed are "merry christmas", "happy birthday", "happy new year", and "lolol".




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