Joe.Budde.Jr

So, i stumbled upon an older post from Tom, talking about how amazing it is that machines can speak to humans using regular old English on a human conversation platform like twitter.

He says the coolest part is that:

“We’re no longer necessarily anthropomorphising machines into people, but treating their digital incarnations as readily-understood metaphors.”

Amazing, machines aren’t people, but they are digital ‘beings’ that have information to pass along. Oh, the potential uses!.  Earlier, I wrote a post about how London’s Tower Bridge updates twitter to tell us what it is doing. 

But if we take the concept a bit farther in terms of implementation, our machines could be set up to communicate with us in so many productive ways:

• Hydraulic systems can notify us when they need more fluid
• Cars could send tweets for broken belts, hoses and other items
• Inventory systems could notify managers of high/low levels of inventory
• Ovens or stove tops could let us know that they have been on too long
• My personal favorite: If it is Friday night and its past midnight and your alarm is still set, i want a twitter message coming my way that says “HEY! Turn your alarm off, you will be happier tomorrow morning!”  Or for a more in depth conversation with your alarm clock check out Chris’ post on “things that IM.”

I only start these lists so that I can hear from you. I want to know what you would want machines to tell you.  Leave a comment about your future conversation with a machine and lets grow this list together!